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he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
century, Gothic literature is a type of fiction that combines both horror and romance. Its writing is intended to stimulate the em...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
the age of 24 left her son with deep emotional wounds that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Eliz...
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...
"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
In an overview consisting of four pages various aspects of Poe's life are related to his works in what is less an analysis than a ...
precipitates her husbands horrific discovery and subsequent madness" (Frushell 18). That Ligeia represents everlasting love not o...
In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...
of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...
In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...
This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...
In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...
In ten pages this paper considers the speculation surrounding Poe's death and concludes that his premature passing may have been t...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...