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Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...
constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...
grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...
shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...
away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...
From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...
had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...
told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...
world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...
This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...
This paper focuses on "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and discusses the layer quality of the narrative. The writer also compares t...
This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...
This essay pertains to the portrayal of women in "Othello," focusing on Desdemona, and in The Canterbury Tales, focusing on the Wi...
Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...
This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...
died within a span of just 18 months.7 The following examination of literature focuses on how the Black Plague affected feudal soc...
"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...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Tiger's Bride" and the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Thematic diff...
This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...
Tolkiens children's tale was significantly revised after its initial publication in 1937. There are five sources in this six page...
role as archetypes of classes of humanity, Blake identifies many of the figures with the characters of Greek myth, whom also alleg...
"I will now offer you my tale" on line 193, but then carries on with scholarly and scriptural justifications for another 600 lines...
This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...
for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...
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...
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...