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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...

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

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

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

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

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

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

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

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

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

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

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

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

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...

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

In five pages this paper examines how fear and madness are depicted in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and in Stephen...

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

In seven pages interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque of the Red Death' short story are presented by a comparative analy...

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 six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...

Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...