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grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

have his works lived on, his style and teachings have as well. When he wrote Murders in the Rue Morgue, it was probably the first ...

that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

of instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

Using these two authors as our information base, we might say that one, in light of our life today, chose an unrealistic goal. The...

In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...

In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

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

In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

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

A 5 page analysis of humanity and science as they are portrayed by Mary Shelly's and Edgar Allan Poe. 2 sources....