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of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

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

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

stories(Rollason, 1988). There is, of course, the same typical Poe elements, the triumph of rational reasoning, the superiority ...

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

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

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

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

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

of life and death. Poe was considered a pioneer in his quest to ascertain the inner workings of the sinister mind. A good...

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...

had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). The poem itself is obviously one which revolves around a woman who the...

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 this paper examines how Poe employs the theme of revenge and how it underscored the desires of the author for reveng...

"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...

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

modern Gothic writing lies with his ability to create a variety of forms of symbolist terror, using new structures and creating ne...

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

precipitates her husbands horrific discovery and subsequent madness" (Frushell 18). That Ligeia represents everlasting love not o...

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...

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...

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 Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...

In ten pages this paper considers how Poe's fascination with morbidity may have been due to losing so many female relatives includ...

In ten pages this paper considers the speculation surrounding Poe's death and concludes that his premature passing may have been t...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...