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such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

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

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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...

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...

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

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...

early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...

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

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

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...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

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

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

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

once per hour The revelers are visibly agitated each time the clock becoming disconcerted and tremulous (Poe). The rooms, like the...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

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 ...

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