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Essays 421 - 450
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
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...
have his works lived on, his style and teachings have as well. When he wrote Murders in the Rue Morgue, it was probably the first ...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...
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 ...
was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
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...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
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 ...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...