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Essays 181 - 210
In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...
close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...
In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...
In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...
a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
A 5 page analysis of language elements in the classic tale by Edgar Alan Poe. The author highlights setting, theme, imagery and p...
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
nature of the protagonists soul, as it has perceived injuries made to it. Poe builds on the potential success of his trap by disc...
In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
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...
son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...
"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...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
work following the writing will also help ensure all points have been added and may trigger some more ideas. Once the work is wr...
death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...