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Case Studies on Revenge and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Comparative Analysis of 'Ligeia' and 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

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...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Revenge

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

Setting in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe and Revenge

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

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 ...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

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...

Overview of 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

Deviance in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...

Gothic Genre of Edgar Allan Poe

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

Gothic Hero Edgar Allan Poe in 'Ligeia' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

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...

Poetic Melancholy in the Prose of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper considers the life of Poe as an insightful backdrop to a consideration of the author's employment of mela...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

Doubling in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Edgar Allan Poe, September 11, 2001, Revenge, and Judgment

that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...

Gothic Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Their Domestic Settings

In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Cast of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart, a Comparison

"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...

The Haunted Palace

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

Edgar Allan Poe

early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...

Houses in Literature and their Symbolic Value

and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

The Tell-Tale Heart and the Doppelganger Image

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...