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structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar 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 five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...
In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...
In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
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...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...