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In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...
the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
This 7 page paper gives an analysis of the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This paper includes discussion or other articles about...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...
a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...
of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...
the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...
with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...
story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...
town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...
that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...
Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...
In 5 pages this paper examines the various narrative techniques these authors employ in a contrast and comparison of these novels ...