YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :irony in The Cask of Amontillado Poe
Essays 271 - 300
want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...
to find fulfillment and happiness in their marriage, even if they marry the wrong man, hes abusive, a drunk, or a womanizer. This ...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...
Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
great deal of information about the Birlings, even before they speak. It is a family dinner, but the setting is extremely formal a...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...
manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
This essay provides an analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Three pages in length, four sources are cited. ...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...