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is the evidence that supports a link between biographical information and authorship? 3. What are the central factors in Metamorp...

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

at the on-site school for the city orphanage, Jessie stood out in my history classroom as if a spotlight were on her. Naturally, s...

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

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...

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

being which is so radically different from his original form that he is subsequently rejected by all who know him. He is no longe...

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

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

the police, will not protect her or her family from this predator. As this suggests, this writer/tutor disagrees with the interpr...

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

himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...

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

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...

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...

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...

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

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

In five pages this 1839 tale is revealed to represent many of the experiences and attitudes of the author. Five sources are cited...

In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....

neither of their parents can stand to be in the same room with Gregor. Interestingly, no one ever tries to communicate with Greg...

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...

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

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