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Essays 211 - 240
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
have his works lived on, his style and teachings have as well. When he wrote Murders in the Rue Morgue, it was probably the first ...
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...
healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
a story about meeting people and finding some sort of closure on the past wherein her mother lost her two daughters, and Tan findi...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
This 3 page paper describes a health insurance policy for a 25-year-old male, full-time college student in the state of Florida. T...
thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
lower crime rates, that reductions in crime must originate within individuals. Adding greater numbers of police all too often is ...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
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 1839 tale is revealed to represent many of the experiences and attitudes of the author. Five sources are cited...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
In five pages these short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of how femininity is thematically portrayed in each. There...
"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...