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decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
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...
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...
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...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
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...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
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...
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...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
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...
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, ...
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...
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. ...
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...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...