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his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

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...

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,...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

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...

Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

Doyle enhances the mystery of the narrative by contrasting the supernatural against the scientific reality as perceived by Holmes....

physician and very well respected. He was also a man who had been born "to a large fortune" and thus was in want of nothing to do ...

few lines further on: "he...ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the m...

mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...

In this paper consisting of eight pages the characteristics between the author and his most famous literary creation are considere...

This five page comparative analysis discusses 'The Valley of Fear' and 'A Study in Scarlet.' There are 5 sources listed in the bi...

In an essay consisting of five pages the development of Sherlock Holmes's sidekick is traced. There are six bibliographic sources...

In this paper containing three pages the employment of the scientific method by the famed sleuth is considered with each investiga...

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...

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

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