Symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe’s Selected Short Stories

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories symbolism is the main figure of speech of his stories. The main aim of this study is recognizing the use of symbolism in “Hop – Frog” (1850), “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842) and “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846), and decoding the symbols and various meanings they signify according to Herman Northrop Frye’s theory. This paper tries to explore the way symbolism is used in Edgar Allan Poe’s selected short stories, the writer’s motives and amount of his success.