Response #9

        Poe's use of darkness is a motif that he casually slides in into every poem, or fictional story he writes. In "The Tell-Tale Heart"  Poe mentioned the thickness of the dark when he went into the old mans room to kill him, but then later stated, he couldn't kill this man, because it wasn't the man he hated, it was the eye and he can't see the eye in the dark, so he couldn't bring himself to do it (he did eventually though). In "The Black Cat" the cat was black and its name was "Pluto". In Roman Mythology, Pluto is the name of the God of the Underworld, the underworld is a dark place (not literally). In the story "The Raven", the Raven was a black bird, Ravens usually symbolize death, I hope you see where this is going. Lastly, "The Bells" by Edgar Allen Poe, at the end of this story, it talks specifically about hell bells and funeral bells. It talks about the how melancholy and monotone ghouls, this represents sadness.

Response #6

       In the film "Psycho" directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock used various camera angles and lighting technique to create suspense or put an idea in your head about a character. Other technique Hitchcock used was irony. I want to focus particularly on is called situational irony which Hitchcock used in a couple scenes to confuse the audience. The first sense was when everybody thought that the movie was going to be about Marion Crane, and the stolen money, but she was stabbed to death and the money was drowned in a lake, so that story was over and it was more about murders happening and trying to find out what happened to the people who came up missing. 

       

        Another example of situational irony, was when the lady walked into Sam's and asked for something to kill a pest, but she didn't want something that could hurt it. She wanted it to die peacefully, it's ironic, because she wants to kill something (perform a harmful act), but doesn't want it to feel any pain.

Response #8

        Poe's tone in The Black Cat was very sinister. He believed that deep down in everyone was evil, including himself. This story showed that sometimes it takes a certain thing to bring our "beasts" out, for Edgar Allen Poe it was alcohol that caused him to perform abusive and harmful acts.

Response #7

        Honestly, I believe in revenge, for the simple fact that if I feel like you're out to get me or you've already "gotten" me, I'm going to get you back, or get you before you get me, because that's just how my mind set it. Say for example someone runs of your foot on purpose. Now if it was an accident of course I'd let it slide, because they didn't do it intentionally but if it was on purpose and both you and I know that, then I feel like it's only right that I get you back and run your foot over.