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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 five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...

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...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

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

he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utte...

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

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

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...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

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

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

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

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...

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...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...