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

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

In twelve pages the many twists and turns Poe incorporated into this horrifying and entertaining short story are examined. Ten so...

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

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

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

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...

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

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

In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...

In five pages Poe's short story is analyzed in terms of the author's masterful point of view usage. There are no other sources li...

nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

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

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

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

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

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

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...