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Edgar Allan Poe

early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...

Common Themes in "The Purloined Letter" and Poe's Poetry

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...

Gothic Movement in Literature

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Themes of Terror and Evil

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

Women's Influence Upon Edgar Allan Poe

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...

Setting and its Significance in 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

American Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry and Death

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' and 'MS Found in a Bottle'

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

Edgar Allan Poe's Personality and Lifespan Development

that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Threat In His Mind'

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and the Revenge Theme Nemo me impune lacessit

the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

Edgar Allan Poe's Life Reflected in His Art

from school describing in the most graphic terms fights and accidents he had witnessed: "I saw the arm afterwards -- it was really...

Society and the Individual in the Writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Edgar Allan Poe

In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Symbols

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Gothic Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Their Domestic Settings

In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

Symbolic Motifs and Gothic Imagery of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...

Gothic Hero Edgar Allan Poe in 'Ligeia' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

Deviance in 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

Edgar Allan Poe's Fiction and Theme of Death

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...

Story Synopsis of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....

Portrayals of Humanity and Science in Frankenstein and Maezel's Chess Player

A 5 page analysis of humanity and science as they are portrayed by Mary Shelly's and Edgar Allan Poe. 2 sources....

Evil in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

American Literature as Defined by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe and Reader Response Theory

In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...

Literary Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...