Writer's biography Analysis of the story: Tone Setting Style

1. The Oval Portrait
By Edgar Alan Poe

2. Biography
Edgar Allan Poe.
Born in Boston,
Massachusetts
January 19 1809
Dark romanticism gender
Themes like: pre-maturial
burial,decomposition,
death, reanimation,
Monomania.

3. Characters
•Woundedman
•Pedro
•Woman in the
portrait
•Painter

4. Wife
Young
Humble
Obedient
Husband
Obsessed
Moody
Passionate
Round
Dynamic
Characters

6. Setting
Time: 19th Century

7. Light
Setting
Plot
“I thus saw in vivid light a picture all unnoticed
before”
….and sat meekly for many weeks
in the dark…

8. Point of View
First Person
Third Person
Objective

9. Style
Descriptive - Narrative

10. Tone
“And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and
wedded the painter”
“It was thus a terrible thing for this lady to hear
the painter speak of his desire to portray even his young
bride”
“…he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast,
and crying with a loud voice, This is indeed Life
itself! Turned suddenly to regard his beloved: - She
was dead! --

11. Theme
•Women Submition
•Sacrifice
•Monomany
• Transitoriousness
of beauty.
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12. References
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13. References