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talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

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

all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

potential, or realistic, loss of children during the war. War has always taken children from the parents and this is simply a very...

In three pages this essay discusses this short story by Tennessee Williams in an analysis of techniques....

A 5 analysis of the short story by Guy de Maupassant. 7 sources,...

"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 essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

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 ...

work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...

of instruction and inspiration, freedom of the individual, self-analysis, a high value placed on finding connections with nature a...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

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...

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...