YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Evil By Edgar Alan Poe
Essays 211 - 240
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
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...
had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). The poem itself is obviously one which revolves around a woman who the...
In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...
stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
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" ...
good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...
of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...
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...
In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
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...
conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...
idea creates a "binary logic," in which evil is conceptualized as an "entity, a quality that is inherent in some people and not in...
In six pages this paper argues that a morally omnipotent and perfect God is not possible because of the existence of evil. Eight ...
How evil evolved in Christian beliefs is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages and how evil has changed in terms of soci...
of the foundational ideas of philosophy. According to him, the problem of evil posed a philosophical threat to the design argumen...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages Shakespeare's uses of iambic pentameter in his 'good' characters and spoken prose by the 'evil' c...
In seventeen pages this paper examines the philosophical concept of evil and then considers 'necessary evil' within the contexts o...
Christians view the human condition as being integrally tied with the fact that we were created in the image of God. While we som...
well as atrocities instigated by one group of human beings against another or by individuals, one can often hear the comment that ...
under the just intention of abating evil and promoting good, 4. whether other means of rectification have been attempted and war ...
the side of the road in the midst of miles of cornfields. It is a bright, sunny afternoon and the prairie seems benign after the c...