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that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of...

the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...

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...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

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

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

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...

from school describing in the most graphic terms fights and accidents he had witnessed: "I saw the arm afterwards -- it was really...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

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

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

and all through the power of words. Eliot doesnt start slowly as his first four lines parody the first four lines of Chaucers fif...

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...