Edgar Allen Poe’s Mental Illness as Horror 
Edgar Allen Poe’s mental illness and how he used that to portray horror in Gothic writing. This
literacy analysis is over reading material “The Black Cat” & “The Fall of the House of Usher” by
Edgar Allen Poe.
Goals of the assignment the goal of this essay is to demonstrate your critical engagement of one or two of the reading
assignments (The black cat & the fall of the house of usher) Going beyond a basic understanding
of pot and characters, your essay should discuss a specific issue or question, probing the
connections between ideas such as : literary form, purpose, audience, and context.