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

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

once per hour The revelers are visibly agitated each time the clock becoming disconcerted and tremulous (Poe). The rooms, like the...

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

revenge" (Poe 280). Because Fortunato regarded himself as a most knowledgeable wine connoisseur, Montresor schemed to get him dow...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

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...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

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...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

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" ...

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

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....

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

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

In five pages this paper considers the life of Poe as an insightful backdrop to a consideration of the author's employment of mela...

In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

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...

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...