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Essays 211 - 240
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
(Burton, 1985). He tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, and thus began the thousand nights, for each night she would end...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...
In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...
shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...
In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...
In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...
appear to be fraternizing with ghosts, are not so much the focus of the story as the governess, who begins questioning if what she...
In five pages this paper examines the importance of social mobility in this Alger tale that defined the story of the American conc...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses the conflict that results from knighthood's overlapping obligations in a comparati...
the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...
In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...
Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
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...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In five pages this paper examines the stories featured throughout 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of the repetition of Agamemnon'...
In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...
In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...