YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 91 - 120
In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
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...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...
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...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
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...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
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 ...
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...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
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...
of instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...