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33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
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...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
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 essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...
In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
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...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
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...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
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...
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...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...