YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 31 - 60
In six pages this essay considers Montressor's revenge against Fortunato and ponders whether or not he ever feels guilty or remors...
In five pages Poe's short story is analyzed in terms of the author's masterful point of view usage. There are no other sources li...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...
In ten pages this paper considers the speculation surrounding Poe's death and concludes that his premature passing may have been t...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
revenge" (Poe 280). Because Fortunato regarded himself as a most knowledgeable wine connoisseur, Montresor schemed to get him dow...
the age of 24 left her son with deep emotional wounds that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Eliz...
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
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...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...