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

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

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

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

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

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

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 ...

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...

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

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

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

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

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 eight pages this paper examines the US abuse of alcohol in a consideration of causes, psychological and social effects, and tre...

In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...

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

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...