Do you enjoy the concept of fear? Many authors have mastered the art of inducing fear into the readers of their works. Some examples of stories that cause fear in Unit 1 are “The Feather Pillow,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “House Taken Over.". Horrifying tales like these have many different ways to invoke terror into the hearts of the reader. “The Feather Pillow” is a great example of a chilling tale that throws its frightening element directly into the reader’s face. “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga is a good example of a scary story because the main character Alicia gets a mysterious disease. This story is excellent at building suspense and ambiance by furthering her illness as the story goes on. After creating this suspense, it drops the bomb on you and reveals what was truly ailing Alicia. …show more content…
IL9). The. This is a good example of symbolism, as this is a metaphor for her parasitic marriage to her husband, Jordan. Another good example of a story that is good at symbolism is “The Fall of the House of Usher”. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe is a good example of a story that subtly tells you what the horror element is. “It was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline of Usher.” (Poe pg. 30). The adage of the adage. This is an excerpt from the end of the story, where the seemingly dead Madeline Usher “magically” comes back to life. In reality, she has something similar to Catalepsy. The average reader would probably not know what this is and so probably not understand until they look it up and understand what it is, thus making it
The Feather Pillow: Alicia’s Transformation! Imagine this situation: day by day, an unknown condition slowly drains the life of a once pleasant wife. This situation is what occurs in the story “The Feather Pillow,” where Alicia is the wife that is being plucked from character, and her husband Jordan, and doctors watch her passing, as they cannot solve nor explain why and how this is happening to Alicia. The author, Horacio Quiroga defines the emptiness, vulnerability, and terror in a relationship
Gothic theme, gloomy mood, and recurring symbolism. A great example of Gothic Literature is the poem “The Feather Pillow” written by Horacio Quirgoa. ‘’The Feather Pillow” can be defined as Gothic Literature because it contains a gloomy mood, a Gothic Villain, and recurring symbolism. The “The Feather pillow” by Horacio Quirgoa contains a gloomy mood. Throughout the entirety of the poem Quiroga uses adjectives and diction that contain a pessimistic connotation in order to set forth a gloomy mood. For
These elements can be found in the works of countless authors writing such as Horacio Quiroga, Edgar Allen Poe and more recently, Ransom Riggs. Therefore, the works of these authors contain gothic elements that can be related to one another. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs shares similar gothic elements with Edgar Allen Poe’s works The Black Cat, The Raven, and Horacio Quiroga’s work The Feather Pillow. The first work that shares a common gothic element with Miss Peregrines
Many authors use Gothic literature in their common works like “The Black Cat,” written by Edgar Allen Poe, “Prey,” by Richard Matheson, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving, “The Feather Pillow,” by Horacio Quiroga, and “A Rose For Emily,” by William Faulkner. In effort to create a sense of mystery, suspense, and superstition, these authors use these Gothic Elements: Entrapment and Violence. By using these elements, authors illustrate their belief that one should express themselves through
include the themes of violence and entrapment in their works in order to provide an understanding how the characters react and what they are feeling. Novels such as “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Prey” by Richard Matheson, “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner incorporate a message of violence and entrapment. Overall, the authors imply these particular themes in order to bestow a sense of the characters emotions and allow the readers to sympathize
did not know how to react, worried, stunned, frightened, shocked, I believed I had lost him. Transformation plays a role in the stories, “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar, “Beware: do not read this poem” by Ishmael Reed, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, because they all scare us in different ways using transformation. In
In the “Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, Alicia died by strange means that no one understood. It was later discovered that Alicia was killed by a parasite living in her pillow. The parasite “night after night, ever since Alicia had taken to her bed, it had stealthily applied its mouth… to her temples, sucking gout her blood” (Quiroga 2) and slowly killing her. Within “…five days, in five nights, it had emptied Alicia” (Quiroga 2). In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
mystical elements that make up Gothic Fiction. There are many great authors who are well known for their dark gothic style such as Edgar Poe, who has written the short story “Fall of the House of Usher” and the “Black Cat,” or Horacio Quiroga who has written “Feather Pillow” and a more recent author, Ransom Riggs who has written Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. These three author’s stories all have gothic elements, such as psychological issues, death and fear that parallel one other which
hill with vacant hunger” (Riggs 116). In the short story, “Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, a man’s wife passes away through a mysterious death, growing weaker and weaker everyday. After her death, he picks up her pillow and finds “Among the feathers, slowly moving its hairy legs, there was a monstrous animal” which caused her death by drawing blood from her head every single day (Quiroga 2). Although the monster in the “Feather Pillow” is much smaller than the monster in the novel, they both
Morgenstern, is a novel that contains several gothic elements within its chapters; these include blood, death, and entrapment. The “Masque of Red Death,” by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving, and the “Feather Pillow,” by Horacio Quiroga, are more examples of stories that also include a specific unique element within each of their original lores. In fact, within Morgenstern, Poe, Irving, and Quiroga’s gothic pieces, certain gothic elements can be compared and are emphasized:
Reading books that we are uncertain about and unfamiliar with will cause an atmosphere of fear because we aren’t certain how the story will unfold. Several stories show that. Those stories are Where is Here by Joyce Carol Oates, My Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga, Why Some Brains Enjoy Fear by Allegra Ringo, and In the Fall of House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. All of these stories have a few things in common, they all cause uncertainty because the readers aren’t sure about the ending of the stories
It is a common belief that when a person falls off a cliff, often times they die before they even reach the ground. The driving reasoning behind this idea is the fact that humans naturally fear change. The idea is that someone who falls off a cliff becomes so scared of the changes that will happen to their body when they hit the ground, that the thought alone overloads their body and kills them. The belief may or may not be scientifically sound, however the root that it stems from is a fact that