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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...
the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...
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...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
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 ...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
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 ...
was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...
"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 Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...
In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...
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...
In an overview consisting of four pages various aspects of Poe's life are related to his works in what is less an analysis than a ...
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...