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"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

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...

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

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

A 5 page analysis of language elements in the classic tale by Edgar Alan Poe. The author highlights setting, theme, imagery and p...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...

87). They dont see Alisoun for who and what she is, but instead act out some sort of romantic fantasies that have little to do wit...

was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

her mother does not always know the time of day. "He just left five minutes ago"; "That was this morning, Mother. Its night now" ...