YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :3 Short Stories by Poe Analyzed
Essays 121 - 150
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...
In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
In twelve pages the many twists and turns Poe incorporated into this horrifying and entertaining short story are examined. Ten so...
In five pages this paper examines how Poe employed satirical humor regarding art and science in this famous short story. Five sou...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...