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Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the 'Dark' Theme of Revenge

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

Revenge and Hamlet

tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...

Revenge and Doubt in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...

Analysis of Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus

Around, around, in airy rings, / They wheel with oarage of their wings" (Agamemnon, 2002). The image of the birds, circling over ...

Revenge in 'Wuthering Heights'

manner by which he perpetually transfers his deep-seated anger and frustration upon all who enter his life, even to the point of e...

Justice and Revenge Themes of the Orestia Plays

her hatred of her husband, and her desire for vengeance. "Meanwhile, she has taken to herself a boyfriend, Aegisthus, brother of c...

Major Themes of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Analyzed

intensity of a hurricane, which dramatically sets the plays tone. Shakespeare recognized the importance of the ghost, which essen...

"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

Hamlet's Ghost - A Textual Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the topic of the purpose of Hamlet's Ghost. Citing textual evidence, the writer sho...

Justice and Revenge in The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Electra by Euripides

"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...

Revenge and Jealousy Featured in Othello by William Shakespeare

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

The Inside Story: A Disgruntled Employee Gets His Revenge (Case Study Analysis)

background check, employees are given a great deal of access to computer files and this can be dangerous. The article also p...

Edgar Allan Poe/Theme of Insanity

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

The Influence of Edgar Allen Poe

"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...

American Literature

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

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 ...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became 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...

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...

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...

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...

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, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...