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fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...
This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...
(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...
In seven pages Poe's life and works are examined with a focus on the theme, symbolism, and meaning of 'The Tell Tale Heart.' Six ...
In an overview consisting of four pages various aspects of Poe's life are related to his works in what is less an analysis than a ...