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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 five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...
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" ...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
revenge" (Poe 280). Because Fortunato regarded himself as a most knowledgeable wine connoisseur, Montresor schemed to get him dow...
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 ...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
was paramount to understanding many of his stories and aspects of the life of Poe are often mirrored within the narrators of his s...
In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...
In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...
of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...
In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...
This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...
In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...
precipitates her husbands horrific discovery and subsequent madness" (Frushell 18). That Ligeia represents everlasting love not o...
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 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 ...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...
In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...