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

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

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

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...

In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...

In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...

In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...

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...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

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). ...

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...

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

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