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the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

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...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

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

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

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

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

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...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

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...

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...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

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

point that the transformational leadership model differs greatly from the coercive, punitive leadership theories of the past that ...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

mayor. Lucie begins to fulfill her ambitious dreams. Episode 4, "The New Road, 1938" and Episode 5, "Up and Away and Back, 1939," ...