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WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

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...

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

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...

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

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...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

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...

work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...

In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...

In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...

In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...

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...

In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....