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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...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). The poem itself is obviously one which revolves around a woman who the...
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 ...
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...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...
himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...
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...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
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 instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...
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...
that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...
In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...
In five pages the ways in which Poe's internal struggles and private thoughts are revealed in his writings are examined. Six sour...
In 5 pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Poe satirizes transcendentalism in this story. There are 6 sources cited in the ...
In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
In twelve pages the many twists and turns Poe incorporated into this horrifying and entertaining short story are examined. Ten so...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...