A Comparison Of Alfred Hitchcock And Edgar Allan Poe
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Fear, terror and suspense are the most vivid emotions created by
Poe's stories and by Hitchcock's films. Several themes are common to both:
the madness that exists in the world, the paranoia caused by isolation
which guides people's actions, the conflict between appearance and reality
along with ....
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.... a homicidal maniac who has committed matricide. He suffers from
schizophrenia — he acts as both himself and his dead mother. Roderick
Usher appears strange from the beginning, almost ghost-like, with his
"cadaverousness of complexion" — however, he is not a murderer. He suffers
from a mental disorder which makes him obsessed with fear: fear of the
past, of the house, of the dead. He finally dies, "victim to the terrors
he had anticipated."
The way in which madness is proje ....
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