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any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...
In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...
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...
In five pages this paper considers the life of Poe as an insightful backdrop to a consideration of the author's employment of mela...
In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...
In 5 pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Poe satirizes transcendentalism in this story. There are 6 sources cited in the ...
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...
Using these two authors as our information base, we might say that one, in light of our life today, chose an unrealistic goal. The...
In twelve pages the many twists and turns Poe incorporated into this horrifying and entertaining short story are examined. Ten so...
In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...
In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...
In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...