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2 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Themes of Anxiety, Guilt, Fear, and Confined Space

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...

'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this essay examines how Poe's combination of detail and manipulated point of view constructs a compelling psychologi...

Theme of Revenge in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...

Short Stories by Jack London and Edgar Allan Poe on Death

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

'Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Irony

In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...

His Work Plus His Life Equal Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which Poe's internal struggles and private thoughts are revealed in his writings are examined. Six sour...

'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...

'The Cask of Amontillado' Fiction and the Real Life of Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...

Poe/Masque of the Red Death

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

Poe and Faulkner: Comparing Symbolism

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

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...

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 ...

American Literature

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

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...

Language Elements in House of Usher

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

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...

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. ...

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...

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,...