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Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' to Edgar Allan Poe's 'Purloined Letter'

all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

A Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Uses of Gothic Symbolism

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

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

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...

Synopsis of 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

Characterization of Abner Snopes and Symbolism in 'Barn Burning by William Faulkner

This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Works

indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe, Dualism and Literary Parallels

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Faulkner, Poe, and Chopin Bringing Characters to Life

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

Edgar Allan Poe Interpretations

In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...

Common Themes in "The Purloined Letter" and Poe's Poetry

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

Stories by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

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

Narrator Reliability in 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

and simplistic style she employs. "The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by...

Joyce, Faulkner, Poe, and Their Short Stories' Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

Literary Analysis of Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily,' Poe's 'Ligeia,' and Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

Barn Burning and Freud

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

Fire Symbolism in Barn Burning

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

Barn Burning by Faulkner

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...

Father/Son Relationship in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

judge asks if he can produce the black man, Harris said no, he was a stranger; then he says "Get that boy up here. He knows" (Faul...

Barn Burning by Faulkner

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...