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Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Creative Mountain Warrior Saga

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

Literary Analysis of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

Supernatural and the Romantic in Works by Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

'Grim Fairy Tales and Gory Stories' by Aviva Layton

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

A Discussion Concerning African Literature

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Love in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

of men" (Dickens V). Carton looks quite a bit like Darnay, however, and in this reality Darnay is set free because it cannot now b...

Analysis of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Epic Poem Beowulf Contemporary Retelling

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

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...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

The Indo Caribbean Experience as Found in A House For Mr. Biswas

what makes some relationships as viewed by outsiders particularly scandalous. Indeed, the role of class in society represents bot...

Comparative Analysis of Offred and Bone

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

A 'Mice and Men' Marxist Analysis

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

Analyzing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

US Future and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...

English Postcolonial Animal Tales and Gender Stereotypes

keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tale...

Offred Character in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

Dada and Impressionist Art as Political Statements

favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Threat In His Mind'

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

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Sad Stories of Love: Tristan and His Parents

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

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

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

William Shakespeare's 'Romantic Revisions'

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Narrative Point of View

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

Tale of Kieu by Nguyen, Du

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...