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Essays 211 - 240
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
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...
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...
by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...
the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...
In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...
In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, the two works of good and evil are considered within the context of detective fiction. ...
In five pages this paper examines detective crime fiction and how the readers are engaged in the detection of the crime in Carr's ...
This paper examines six detective novels from the nineteen hundreds, and addresses common themes seen throughout each. The author...
This paper consists of three pages and examines how homosexuality is subtlely presented in 'The Bootlegger's Daughter' by Margaret...
In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
This essay offers an introduction to police investigators/detectives. Promotion opportunities for police officers are reported. Th...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
A 5 page analysis of language elements in the classic tale by Edgar Alan Poe. The author highlights setting, theme, imagery and p...
America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...
movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...