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good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

revenge" (Poe 280). Because Fortunato regarded himself as a most knowledgeable wine connoisseur, Montresor schemed to get him dow...

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...

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...

modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

"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 this paper considers the life of Poe as an insightful backdrop to a consideration of the author's employment of mela...

precipitates her husbands horrific discovery and subsequent madness" (Frushell 18). That Ligeia represents everlasting love not o...

In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...

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 ...

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...

In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...

In six pages this essay considers Montressor's revenge against Fortunato and ponders whether or not he ever feels guilty or remors...

In five pages Poe's short story is analyzed in terms of the author's masterful point of view usage. There are no other sources li...

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 detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...

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 how Poe's fascination with morbidity may have been due to losing so many female relatives includ...