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Essays 151 - 180
"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 examines how fear and madness are depicted in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and in Stephen...
In five pages these short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of how femininity is thematically portrayed in each. There...
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...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...
In five pages this paper examines how Poe employed satirical humor regarding art and science in this famous short story. Five sou...
In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...
In five pages this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...
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 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...
often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
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...
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...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...