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is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

survived and were content with that. The little girl, however, was not happy with such a life. She wanted more. But, she never c...

that there is really no future in India, especially with current political and economic problems. The family gathers together enou...

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

In five pages this paper discusses Edgar Allan Poe's writing style in this analysis of his 'The Tell Tale Heart' short story. The...

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

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...

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

(Burton, 1985). He tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, and thus began the thousand nights, for each night she would end...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

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. ...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

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

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...