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'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

Analysis of the Detectives Created by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe

stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...

Analyzing 'A Valentine' by Edgar Allan Poe

himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...

Analyzing 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

The Short Story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

Psychological Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

Satire Used by Edgar Allan Poe in 'The Spectacles'

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

Edgar Allan Poe/Theme of Insanity

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

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

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

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

Edgar Allan Poe: His Works and His Life

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...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...

Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

once per hour The revelers are visibly agitated each time the clock becoming disconcerted and tremulous (Poe). The rooms, like the...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Literary Devices in the Works of Stephen King

In five pages this essay examines the symbolism, characterization, and important use of Maine's rural setting featured in 'The Man...

Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

on behalf of those who embrace the concept of "green," including clean air, food and water, nothing much has really changed, eve w...

The Shining Film and Perspective

place in the hotel. Before truly examining the narrative content in the film we look at the elements concerning the protagonist....

Analyzing The Stand by Stephen King

Despite the obvious panic, a visibly ailing President of the United States attempts to reassure a shaken nation by vehemently deny...

Film and Novel Versions of The Green Mile

of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...

'Man in the Black Suit' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes Stephen King's short story in terms of how the author employs the setting of rural Maine. There...

'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

In this paper consisting of five pages the King's search for a Belgian colony is discussed along with the fear that overtaking Asi...

Stephen King's Film The Green Mile from a Sociological Perspective

murdered children, the horrific scene caused the searchers to assume the worse. Their own thoughts of tragedy and terror took ove...

Overview of Carrie by Stephen King

In three pages this paper examines Stephen King's horror novel with an analysis of how the supernatural is presented along with at...

King and Eliot

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

Opinion of Stephen King

a little love" (Stephen King, 2006). King is clearly up to the task. One of the most important aspects of Kings work, and which h...