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In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...
In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
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...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
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...
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...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
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 ...
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...
healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...
truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...
was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...
that "justice" was being defined since 9/11 appears to equate it with vengeance. A headline in the November 16th edition of the ...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...