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In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
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...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
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...
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 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'...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...
In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...
that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
In five pages this paper examines how fear and madness are depicted in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and in Stephen...
The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...
This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...
freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...
Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...
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...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
that he assumes Mrs. Costello is not that fond of Daisy and her mother and Mrs. Costello states, "They are the sort of Americans t...
In five pages this 1878 novel by Henry James is examined in terms of how social conventions are thematically portrayed....
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...
"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...