One main attribute of Poe’s work is his remarkable use of gothic elements, such as grotesqueness. “The Pit and the Pendulum” demonstrates a sense of grotesqueness because it takes what is supposed to a normal pendulum and morphs it into something awful and terrifying, when it is depicted as a blade that is swinging over the narrator 's head, about to kill him. Poe also demonstrates grotesqueness in “The Black Cat” when he describes in detail how a seemingly normal black cat has it’s eyes gouged out by his alcoholic owner. When plotting to “punish” his cat, the narrator states “I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!”(“The Black Cat”5). Poe took an ordinary cat named Pluto and turned it into a disfigured creature, therefore showing grotesqueness. In “The Cask of …show more content…
These trademark characteristics of Poe’s writing are shared between“The Black Cat”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Pit and the Pendulum”. Overall, Edgar Allan Poe’s works can be clearly distinguished between his and other author’s works because he brilliantly manipulates words to give off the true feeling of horror and teach us lessons about humanity along the way, truly showing us what it means to be “The Father Of