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Feminism and the Role of Clytemnestra

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

Paula's Identity Search in The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle

Abused wife Paula's identity search is discussed in an analysis of The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle consisting of fi...

'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this essay examines how Poe's combination of detail and manipulated point of view constructs a compelling psychologi...

First Encounter With Death in Joyce's The Sisters

The focus of this three page paper is a young boy's first experience with death as it unfolds in the short story in James Joyce's ...

Birds in Literature

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

Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

'The Cask of Amontillado' Fiction and the Real Life of Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...

Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner and Their Fictional Depictions of Women

In five pages the fictional representations of women featured in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dying by Will...

His Work Plus His Life Equal Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which Poe's internal struggles and private thoughts are revealed in his writings are examined. Six sour...

Symbolic Meaning of the Cask in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

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

Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Works

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

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...

Women and Stereotypes

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

Japan and Traditional Women's Role

This paper discusses Japan's society in terms of the role women have traditionally played such as wife, geisha, and also examines ...

'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...

Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Style

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

Edgar Allan Poe's Short Story Themes

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

American Society in Literature

This 16 page paper examines four books that are centered on American society. The books discussed are Joyce Maynard's To Die For; ...

Cultural Assessment of Family Nursing

in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry

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

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Setting

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

Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Edgar Allan Poe's Composition Philosophy

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

Romantic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....

Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...