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that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
mother and in many ways Catherine is that female figure for him. He cannot bear to let her go, cannot bear to live without her and...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
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 thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...
In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...
In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...
This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
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...
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...
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). ...
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 ...
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
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...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...
of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...