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Essays 211 - 240
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
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" ...
once per hour The revelers are visibly agitated each time the clock becoming disconcerted and tremulous (Poe). The rooms, like the...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...
been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....
This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...
Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
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...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...
This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...