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all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

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" ...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

the age of 24 left her son with deep emotional wounds that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Eliz...

revenge" (Poe 280). Because Fortunato regarded himself as a most knowledgeable wine connoisseur, Montresor schemed to get him dow...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...

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

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...