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Essays 151 - 180
In six pages the emotional undercurrent that pervades this horrific short story by Edgar Allan Poe is examined. Three sources are...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...
In five pages these famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe are summarized and compared in terms of similarities and differences, ...