Essay Archive - A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe
A Comparison of Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allan Poe
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 the double aspect of the human nature, and the power of the dead
over the living. Not only the themes are similar in both men's work but
also the details through which a story is written or shown. The simil....
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