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In five pages this essay examines how Poe's combination of detail and manipulated point of view constructs a compelling psychologi...

In five pages this paper examines how Poe employed satirical humor regarding art and science in this famous short story. Five sou...

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). The poem itself is obviously one which revolves around a woman who the...

himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

once per hour The revelers are visibly agitated each time the clock becoming disconcerted and tremulous (Poe). The rooms, like the...

This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

we have no sense of frustration or unrequited longing in terms of his aspirations....

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

an accident with a drunk man. It is the drunks fault that the cars collided but the drunk man is belligerent and begins to hit Dic...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interest in...

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...