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'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

Femininity in 'My Visitation' by Rose Terry Cooke and 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages these short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of how femininity is thematically portrayed in each. There...

'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this essay examines how Poe's combination of detail and manipulated point of view constructs a compelling psychologi...

'Never Bet the Devil Your Head' by Edgar Allan Poe

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Poe satirizes transcendentalism in this story. There are 6 sources cited in the ...

Overview of Edgar Allan Poe

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...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Overview of 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

Analysis of the Detectives Created by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe

stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...

Analyzing 'A Valentine' by Edgar Allan Poe

himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...

Analyzing 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

Synopsis of 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

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

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

The Raven

often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...

Fayum Portraits

as to whether or not they actually resembled the deceased to any greater degree. Analyses of the paintings shows that they are oft...

Ancient Art

Both are clearly made of very different materials. The Head of a Roman Patrician is carved from marble and is thus a three dimensi...

Carthage's 'Romanization'

in the second century BC and found itself under almost seven hundred years of Roman rule (Raven, 1993)....

Tlingit Mythology and the Raven

In four pages this paper examines Tlingit mythology and the Raven's role in a discussion of 3 myths. Five sources are cited in th...

Balenciaga Fashion House's Rise and Fall

attraction of this fashions house has been its history, and the way that it may be seen as being one of the most influential fashi...

Orphan Warriors and the Manchu Fall from Power

Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World by Kyle Crossley is a portrait of the Manchu minority in C...

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...

American Literature

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

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 ...

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...

Different Forms of Power

French and Raven identified five forms of power in the 1960s. This essay explains and describes these types of power while it appl...

The Need for Social Housing

The writer looks at the way social housing provides affordable housing in the rental market. Despite arguments that the policies ...

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...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...