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Essays 151 - 180
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
have his works lived on, his style and teachings have as well. When he wrote Murders in the Rue Morgue, it was probably the first ...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...