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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...

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

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

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

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...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

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...

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

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. ...

In all honesty it is not really a poem about abuse but a poem about life and the love that exists between the narrator and the fat...

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...

coming of age and seeking an enlightened path, in the Freudian lens the boy is clearly trying to somehow come to terms with himsel...

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

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

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...

story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

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

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...