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

his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

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

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

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

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

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...

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

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

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

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

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

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

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 ...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of...

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

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...

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...

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...