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

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

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

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

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

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

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

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

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

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...