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This paper examines how symbolism enhances Abner Snopes' characterization in William Faulkner's short story 'Barn Burning' in five...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...

shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....