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fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

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...

the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...

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...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

from school describing in the most graphic terms fights and accidents he had witnessed: "I saw the arm afterwards -- it was really...

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....