Allegories

I think that an allegory is a very nice way to show an idea of a feeling that can or cannot be shown in a direct way. An allegory can offer more ideas about a toppic and because of the way it is explained we pay more attention to it, and therefore, we learn more and can remember it like a story and not only as a simple concept. It gives a complete concept of something, for expample love, it can be nice, but ot also can make you suffer. In a way it shows both sides of the coin, like the image for "Justice", it is suppose to be blind (equals for all), but in real life sometimes this doesn't happen. Knowing now what an allegory is, I am sure the next time I see a picture I will look carefully to it, and try to undertsand what the artist is trying to express.

The Masque of the Red Death

In my point of view, this story is interesting; even though I did't like it that much.
It is interesting because I learned what a pun is. In the story it is used with the word masque. This is a very important fact for the story, because the Price Prospero organized a party in the abbey, it was a masquerade, but when the death arrived, it didn't have any mask.

I didn't like this story that much, because I consider there are many descriptions that can be omitted, and I would heve liked that there was a dialogue between the death and the Prince.
The fact that the death arrives to the party and kills everyone just like that, is in my point of view a little bit boring. I like the stories with more suspense.
I also consider it wasn't a good ending.

The Pit and the Pendulum

I think that Edgar Allan Poe is a great writer, but I cannot explain myself how he can write so well, because he had passed through a difficult childhood.
He was buried alive two times; I cannot imagine a think like that happening to me, besides his parents died when he was a child, and his wife died two years after they got married, I think that these are some of the main reasons of why he liked to write horror stories. He knew how to write, and in my opinion he was afraid of what he passed through his life, but he knew how to take advantage of it. (It isn’t brave the one who doesn’t have fear, but the one who knows how to conquer it.)
I liked a lot this story, because it really made me feel anxious, he knew how to manage the ideas of the story. I also liked the description of how the character felt, maybe Poe was comparing his own experience with his story.