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'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

Edgar Allan Poe versus Arthur Conan Doyle

In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

The Cask of Amontillado

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart

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...

The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

Irony as a Literary Device

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...

Communication Lacking in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

Analysis of Symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Tell Tale Heart'

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

The Raven, 1963 Film and Poe's Poem

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

Life Lessons in Classic Literature

This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

The Raven

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...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

The Influence of Edgar Allen Poe

"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Melancholia in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Death in the Poems of John Donne

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...