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Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
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...
increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...
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...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
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 symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...
work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...
with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...
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...
himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...
was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...
The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
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...
that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....
of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...
In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...
In five pages this paper examines how Poe employed satirical humor regarding art and science in this famous short story. Five sou...
In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...
In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...
In seven pages this paper examines how Hawthorne's first 2 novels represents his rejection of New England Puritan values. Twelve ...
In five pages the ways in which Poe's internal struggles and private thoughts are revealed in his writings are examined. Six sour...
In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...