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In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

In ten pages this paper considers how Poe's fascination with morbidity may have been due to losing so many female relatives includ...

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

In five pages this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...

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

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

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...

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

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

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

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

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

that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of...

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

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...

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

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

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...

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

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...