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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...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
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 night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
science using comic motifs borrowed from writer such as Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Swift (Cook, 1995). The student researching thi...
In five pages the ways Washington Irving employed humor in his famous story are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograp...
close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...
As the Renaissance reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than ...
a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...
her only companion during her convent days, she quickly discovers her own life does not imitate art. She learns that it is a mans...
The text suggests that waking and daylight are most conducive to logical thought. Popes analysis of mans position in the chain of ...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
man demands to be let go, he notices something wild in the sailors eye and it intrigues the young man. As the sailor starts to tel...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
great master and not presented anything really new. As this illustrates, among other points, Emerson present a distinctly American...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
is presented by the protagonist Frank Osbaldistone as the quintessential romantic hero, in a series of narrative letters to his fr...
In seven pages this paper discusses the Romantic aspects of Candide by Voltaire in a consideration of the elements of the love 'qu...