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all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
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...
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...
In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...
In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...
In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....
In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...
In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...
In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...
In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...
In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
"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 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 ...