YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Short Story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 121 - 150
In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...
"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...
In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...
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. ...
creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
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...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
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...
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...
turn out for the good. A student working on this project can see that the following sentences present something of the tone Poes n...
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...
from school describing in the most graphic terms fights and accidents he had witnessed: "I saw the arm afterwards -- it was really...
In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
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...
In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...