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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 ....
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.... The way in which madness is projected in both stories is quite
similar as well. The short story and the movie both take place in a dark
and gloomy house, a "ghostly house" — "a mansion of doom," writes Poe. In
both houses there is the presence of a mysterious woman. For Poe, the
woman is Roderick Usher's sister Madeline who suffers from an undefined
illness, seems to die twice, and appears as Roderick's double. For
Hitchcock, it is the mother who is at first seen as ....
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