Comparisons can be made between everyone in the world, whether it be a man, woman, child, or animal. In this sense, one can compare authors, such as their lives, their styles of writing, and their pieces of literature. There are many similarities and differences between Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. These similarities and differences include what they focus on in their writings, how they write, and what they believe in. The lives and beliefs of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King can be shown in the pieces they wrote.
Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King have similar beliefs and similar items that their stories are about. But Poe and King focus on death and evil in their writings. In Poe's short story "Masque of the Red Death", there is a plague that was bestowed upon the world, killing endless amounts of lives. Some, such as Prince Prospero, took in certain people, mainly their closest friends.
Virginia Poe watercolor painted after her death in...
English: Edgar Allan Poe.
Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894–1895But even as they took refuge death inevitably prevailed and all were killed. Poe has focused on death in his pieces of literature because of his horrible life. Many who were close to him died, and most of his life he was forced to support himself. Stephen King also wrote a short story that focused on death. In his story "Man in the Black Suit", the main character, Gary, has an encounter with the Devil. Although he escapes, he states that still at the age of eighty-one, when the rest of society feels there is no reason to fear the Devil, he is deathly afraid. King focuses on death and evil because he likes to write about those sorts of things. Both King and Poe put common beliefs in the stories they write.
Another thing that Poe and King had in common was...
Poe and King
Using just the one piece of writing from Stephen King has distorted this essay in some respects. If we look at other areas of his work, he also misxes a great deal of humour with his work. King seems to take a childlike glee in his stories, revelling in gory details, which he admits himself came from his early love of Ripleys believe it or not, whereas Poe takes a far more sombre stance. Both men suffered from addictions which affected their writing. King's particularly came out in such works as 'Misery' and 'The Shining'. To a great extent King can be said to be character led as opposed to Poe who was very much plot led. If other works had been consulted this would have been more balanced, but then for all I know you may have been told to only refer to the one work.
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