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Essays 61 - 90
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...
moderation. We can see this as he puts those people in the first stages of hell, which had been neutral -nothing good-nothing bad...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
"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...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
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 six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...
In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...
"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
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 five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...
of Spain and Canterbury of England. "For nearly four hundred years Gothic style dominated the architecture of Western Europe. Go...
In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...
of Gothic Art: From Gothic Architecture to the Neo-Gothic Art Movement, 2005). From these descriptions we can see that the styles ...
Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...
is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...
In six pages three Gothic genre authors including Bram Stoker are examined in a consideration of their works, the antiheroes they ...
Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...
his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...