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the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
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...
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 ...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
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...
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 ...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...
In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...
In five pages this 1839 tale is revealed to represent many of the experiences and attitudes of the author. Five sources are cited...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
In a paper consisting of 6 pages this important writer of the 19th century is examined in an overview of his life and works with i...
In five pages these short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of how femininity is thematically portrayed in each. There...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...