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finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

the century is likely to demonstrate far more social constraints and strict behavioural codes which mediate against gender equalit...

that pushes her into insanity (Gilman). John is both a man and a doctor, and so presents a strong authority figure. When she firs...

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

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

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

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

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

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...

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...

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

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...

women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...

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...

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

A paper which argues that although Gilman's narrative is primarily concerned with the oppression of women leading to mental deteri...

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

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

call on the point of her physician-husband (Brooks ppg) The narrator tells us: "John is a physician, and perhaps--(I would not sa...

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

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

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

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 this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...