YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Edgar Allan Poes Works and the Themes of Evil Insanity and Guilt
Essays 211 - 240
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
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 mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
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" ...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...
himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....
home. Labor divisions are held in check by the marriage contract and the historic or traditional nature of the family. 2.In Chapt...
In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....
The validity of the quote 'In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule' featured ...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...
"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...
often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...