Essays on Edgar Allan Poe

1. Some facts of Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde’s biographies are surprisingly similar: they both had elder brothers and younger sisters, both lived in Chelsea, Britain (though, under different circumstances and in different times: Edgar studied in a boarding school in 1817, and Oscar moved there in 1879 to establish a writing career). Also, both became estranged from their parents: Poe over his gambling debts during his university studies and Wilde due to his charge of "gross indecency" for homosexual acts. Both authors first started to write poems and both have the volume titles “Poems”, however they then moved ...

The narrator of the story, The Black Cat is an insane man. There is a horde of evidence throughout the story to prove this assertion. The actions, the hallucinations and the uncontrollable fits of rage all prove that the narrator is insane.

The narrator has a divided self or consciousness. There are several issues he does not see about himself. First he does not realize that he is explaining more about his unstable mind and uncontrollable fits of anger and less about the influence of alcohol in his life. The narrator wants to “place before the world, succinctly, plainly a series ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Cask of Amontillado, is a confession of a murder that occurred 50 years prior, whereby the narrator was never caught or tried despite his wrongdoing. It tells of one man’s hatred against an unsuspecting individual, whom the narrator has been plotting to kill because of alleged insults the individual made towards him (Baraban 47). All throughout the story, it was never revealed what these remarks were, but which apparently wounded the narrator’s ego so much that he wanted to exact vengeance on the person. Betrayal is also a central theme in the story ...

Just like any other literatures across the world, American literature was highly dependent on the history occurrences and events in the country. After the arrival of the British colonialists to the Americas, America was not a nation as it is today. The country was comprised of a number of colonies that were distributed throughout North America. During the colonial times in America, neo-classical literature was characteristic for many writers at the time. Neoclassical literature existed in the United States for over a century approximately from the 1660s to the 1790s after the United States had acquired independence from the British. Considering that ...

Biographical background

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19th 1809. Both of his parents were actors and this engagement required frequent traveling. Poe, his brother and sister lost both of their parents in the period between 1810 and 1811 and Poe was adopted by John and Frances Allan. Unlike his biological parents, they were wealthy and able to provide a comfortable life for young Poe. They took him to an educational journey to Scotland, Ireland and England where he attended school. They came back to the US and Poe went to university to study languages. This is the period ...

Throughout the history, there have been noteworthy literacy movements, many of which have been over and done. Two of the most important literacy movements throughout the time have been transcendentalism and romanticism.

Transcendentalism was a literacy form in the 19th century. Under this literacy form, many writers have contributed in its movement. Among the major pioneers in this literacy form include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott Theodore Parker. Based on the works of these great transcendentalists I will elucidate the differences that exist between Romanticism and Transcendentalism.

Romanticism draws outs strong feelings and demonstrates significant actions. It is about a ...

Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Raven" is one of literature's most well-known stories, depicting the slow deterioration of the protagonist's mental state at the hands of a talking raven. Mourning over the loss of his lady love, his depression grows more gradually into madness, as the persistent isolation and the repetition of the raven's call "Nevermore" distress him even further. There are many similarities to this story and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving her ...

The Tell-Tale Heart was written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843, and is a short story about a man entering a battle for his sanity as he commits a murder. The story is a monologue told by an accused murderer who remains nameless. He murders an old man in the middle of the night because he sees an eye on the man’s forehead that he believes needs to be removed through killing. The main theme in this story is mental illness. The narrator is mad, but he is convinced that he is not. Among this theme, sanity and paranoia are the two main ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man That Was Used Up” is an astounding dramatic farce involving the search for truth of an unnamed narrator to discern the true secret of a distinguished war hero, General John A.B.C. Smith. Along the way, Poe illustrates a Civil War-era society that brims with a very specific type of cultural revisionism and American exceptionalism that belies the true ugliness of the nation’s atrocities underneath. Looking at this story in the context of the Jacksonian era, in which Indian removal was a very prevalent cultural practice and the upper class lionized military might borne of a ...

This paper is aimed to give a brief outline of Edgar Poe’s life and a short analysis of one of his famous poems ‘Annabel Lee’ to trace the main peculiarities of the author’s style. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prominent figures in the American romantic literature of the second half of the 19th century. Apart from being a critic, an editor and a poet, he is considered to be a founder of the short story in its modern form. Edgar Poe came from the family of professional actors, who died three years after the poet’s birth, and ...

Natural gas represents a gases mixture that can be found in the ground and is created by the way of organic substances decomposition of anaerobic character. Typically, this type of gas is a mix of gaseous hydrocarbons, such as butane, ethane, methane, propane, etc., which is found in the earth's crust. It is broadly utilized as a fuel of very economical kind for various power plants in the glass and cement industry, nonferrous and ferrous metallurgy, building materials production and for household needs. It is also used as raw component for various organic compounds. This type of gas is a mineral deposit ...

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Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart can be described as a short story that hovers around the theme of crime and murder, and the short movie also justifies the duration of the story. The movie is more of a narrative; the protagonist is seen continuously describing his mind and moves directly to the camera. The movie can be categorized as being quantitative because of the attitude of the protagonist right through the movie. He says that he has no personal hatred for the old man, but it’s his vulture’s eyes that seem to make him go cold inside. This instigates ...

Summary

The Epigraph to Poe's “Berenice” by Michael Beard addresses an issue of a Latin epigraph “Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas,” originally written by an Arab. Alterton and Craig have best translated the following quotation as: “My companion said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries” (Beard 611). Michael Beard assumes that this Latin phrase is not rooted in Arabic literature, however, such a trope is frequently seen in Arabic poetry as an evocative opening line, or a preface. If we look at an Arab ...

Essay

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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) – an American writer, poet, literary critic and editor, a representative of American Romanticism. He has received the greatest popularity for his "dark" stories. He is a creator of the forms of modern detective. Poe's creativity contributed to the emergence of the genre of science fiction. "Mask of the Red Death" is the story of Edgar Allan Poe, written and published in 1842. The story begins with description of a terrible disease called the Red Death, devastating the country. Prince Prospero did not want to die from the disease; he gathered a ...

The Gothic genre of literature is a fascinating one, ostensibly drawing upon the fears of its era (mostly Victorian England) to tell tales of the grotesque and the supernatural. These tales in particular often focus on unconventional protagonists, the role of gender in relationships, and the violence that comes from crime, isolation, and alienation. There are many subgenres of Gothic fiction, one of the most prominent being Southern Gothic – Gothic tales that take place entirely in the American South. While both genres enjoy similar styles and concerns, their overall themes and applications deal with anxieties specific to their period; while ...

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Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as a writer who was seriously influenced by neo-Gothic interests. A great American writer, Poe was attracted and influenced by the neo-Gothic writers much before his time because of which, most of his work is on horror. Poe was also witness to a period of uncertainty in society as deceit, murder for gain, revenge and arson was quite common. While courts played an important role in trying to curb this menace, cases were manipulated to benefit the guilty. This had a profound impact on Poe who used certain themes of court matters to develop his ...

Abstract

The project deals with the relationship between Homeland Security, transportation, and logistics management. The nature of the interconnection between the Department of Homeland Security, public transportation, and logistics is the focal point of the research. Measures elaborated by the state department for the protection of transport, passengers and hazardous goods delivery are scrutinized based on the data retrieved from governmental reports, programs and articles. Keywords: homeland security, transportation, logistics management, terrorist, attack The USA is a reputed peacemaker that stands up for peace and equality throughout the world. Valiant though these efforts are, they come up against a serious ...

Introduction

The short film we had chosen was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Tell-Tales Heart. This short story was published in 1843. Just as Edgar Poe divulges, the short story is a narration by an unnamed author who recounts a murder he had committed on an old man who had pale vulture-eyes. The group acting and filming the narration comprises my mate Jake and me (Poe, 16).

The film is only 6 minutes long and this makes the film both a success and a failure. One of the aspects of successes we realized was the choice of the narration. ...

One of the main characteristics of Edgar Allan Poe’s works are an artistic disclosure and analysis of the human psyche and the research of how human psychology determines people’s actions. The author considered the human personality not in the aspects of its morality, neither of its philosophical views, nor of the activity of political consciousness, but in the most difficult aspect – psychology. The prose heritage of Poe is mostly represented by his “scary” short stories, which include such tales as “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Oval Portrait”, “Ligeia”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, ...

Violence of colors in “The Raven” and “Lenore”

In the poems “The Raven”, “Lenore” Poe inquires the loss of ideal beauty and the difficulty in getting it back. These two poems are narrated by a young man crying over the untimely death of his beloved. In “The Raven,” Poe successfully unites his philosophical and aesthetic ideals. In this piece, a young scholar who is emotionally exhausted of the phrase “Nevermore” repeated by a raven in answer to his question about the probability of an afterlife with his deceased lover. “Lenore” shows different ways in which the dead are best remembered, either by mourning or celebrating life beyond earthly ...

The U.S. Indian Wars Edgar Allan Poe’s The Man That Was Used Up and a painting by John Vanderlyn the Murder of Jane McCrea primarily bases this essay on relationship between Native American and white dominating culture relating to racism journey. Racism in the United States existed since the founding of the state (Vanderlyn n.p.). White people differ in their national and religious grounds, they are very different in their attitude towards other groups and the main victims of their racism have become non-white indigenous people (Indians). White has repeatedly incited the Indians scalp and of their opponents. ...

The majority of the narrator’s in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories have at least a little bit wrong with them. Even in “Pit and the Pendulum,” while the narrator appears to be an innocent victim of the Spanish Inquisition, his time below ground has certainly pushed his perspective toward the breaking point. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator is convinced that he is not insane, and he is bent on convincing the reader that he is not insane. However, the fact that he waits until his murder victim’s eyes are open at night (and that the correct eye ...

1 – I, Bartleby One of the most compelling elements of this paper is the sheer level of detail and writing style placed in the work itself – the work reads very well as a first-person short story, which is a good indicator of the strength of the work as a work of fiction itself. Bartleby’s state of mind is, almost by necessity, demonstrated by Bartleby himself having a uniquely clear knowledge and awareness of his own psychological conditions. The use of the Mitchell paper as an in-universe paper is quite interesting, as it indicates that Bartleby has been treated for melancholias before, ...

Problem Solving

Today, societies are more global than they have ever been in human history. Currently, there is a major exchange of knowledge and culture among various different groups of people. Sometimes problems may arise which can cause problems for a certain group or groups of people. A problem such as the color of a person's skin can lead to racism and cause a split in society. Oftentimes, the solution to these problems can be found when different groups, both large and small, come together in order to exchange ideas on problem solving. In their essay, James Surowiecki's "Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a writer who dies in the gutter but left behind a rich legacy. He was born poor and he dies poor, but he filled the years of his life with literary richness. “Edgar Allan Poe has always been a paradox in American literary history. Although he is probably the most widely read of all American writers, he is commonly believed to have been no more than an alcoholic,” ( May, p ix, 1991). He had thousand of readers when he lived, but no friends. Poe was a writer who added value to English literature during his times by introducing mystery, suspense ...

Societies are built, maintained and developed on the fundamental notion of peace and security. Violence and criminal activities disturb the equilibrium of a society by damaging the peace and security. That is why the governments try to restore peace through their policies. One of the crimes that is given significant importance in America is gun crime. Many legislations and licensing policies have been brought throughout the history. However, an unending debate for and against the gun rights and its effects also continues (Nisbet, 2001). Keeping this debate in view, two issues are discussed in this paper: a) should people have a right ...

The Raven a 1935 film directed by Lew Landers is an American horror film. Derived from Edgar Allan Poe famous poem, the film has received much criticism both positive and negative for focusing on telling a story that had already been written in form of a poem. Some critiques argue that the film convey the same message that conveyed in the poem by Poe. In the poem, we see a different storyline from how the poem was executed. Even though there are several scenes where the choice of action resembles what the poem the raven was all about, it is evident that both ...

This week study focused on Allan Poe’s short story, The Purloined Letter. Allan Poe is acknowledged for his Gothic and American Romantic poems and short stories (Poe, Edgar, 4) Taking into consideration all the work done by Allan Poe, this is regarded the finest. This because the story does not have any gothic elements. From the letter, it is clear that the major theme focuses on the displacement and positioning of power. The two characters Lucan and Derrida are depicted with different levels of irony on the ownership of the letter. The struggle of power is re-enacted between ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most mysterious and remarkable writers of the 19th century, whose artistic heritage has always been readers’ and critics’ concern. Being a representative of the American Romanticism, Poe is also well known as an innovator of new genres of literature (detective-fiction and science fiction genres) and as successful practitioner of the short story. His literature style is considered to be macabre and anxious, and the theme of a death is presented in the most of his short stories, and every time it is inextricably linked with psychological conditions of the heroes. “The Masque of the ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, whose works are popular with the readers all over the globe. The timeless themes of Poe’s stories and the struggles of his characters are indeed remain relevant nowadays. His cocktail of death, love and suffer is of an undying combination. His short stories and poems are sodden with darkness, agony, mystery and obsession of inevitable death, they thrill and excite. The Pit And The Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House of Usher are only a few of his ...

Fiction Analysis

Need a title In his Gothic tales of horror, Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the literal and figurative elements of death. This may have to do with him watching his mother suffer with tuberculosis. From the fear of the descending pendulum of the Spanish Inquisition or the metaphorical aspects of the plague from the Red? Black Death, the end of life is a topic that thrills Poe, and it is used throughout his stories. One of the main features of Poe’s fiction is that his settings are revolved around the fantasticthe fantastic, severed from practical reality. By combining the ...

Introduction

The John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination is one of the most tragic events to have happened in the American history. JFK was one of the most loved Presidents due to his unique qualities that endeared him to many. “His lively family, his winning personality and his tireless energy and the respected courage in time of decision” (Stockland 102). Those were attributes that the American populace held about JFK. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States further doubling as the youngest and first Catholic President. It is his unique nature that pre-empted impediments towards his presidency. Shock ...

Introduction

The current healthcare settings offer a more challenging working environment for Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) calling upon them to devise new rules. The ever-growing number of DNP-prepared nurses from different medical institutions graduating each year creates a more competitive environment that before. Additionally, modern education programs prepare graduates for more diverse tasks leaving no room for traditional Doctors of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Montgomery and Porter-O’Grady, 2010). The healthcare sector is in a move to change from traditional methods of healthcare delivery to modern and advanced methods. The process calls upon all healthcare employees to embrace new changes and assume new roles ...

There can be no doubt that Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best writers in the history of American literature. One of his most well-known short-stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a classic that has endured decades of critical research and analysis. Throughout this lengthy scholarship, it immediately becomes apparent that Poe is one of the premier gothic writers of his generation, with his ability to tell a story as if he was his own demented protagonists. Critics and scholars also conclude that Poe has mastered the writing style of the first-person narrator (Ronald 2). In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe uses ...

Literary Comparison

Introduction Edgar Allan Poe ‘s poems are best known for their deep meaning and distinct presentation of particular elements that make up the overall concept of what reality is all about. In a way, the creative process of thinking that Poe has basically imposed in most of his works transcends a distinct pillar of his being, as if sharing not only his thoughts but his individuality to his readers. Practically, this approach has made Poe’s poems to be among the most read and most analyzed ones. Among the themes used by Poe in presenting his poems to the public ...

Recently, the news has featured many stories about Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman who recently chose to end her life because she had terminal brain cancer. In April 2014, she received a prognosis that gave her six months left in her life. In the meantime, her doctors recommended full radiation to the brain, which would singe her hair off and cover her scalp with first-degree burns. Also, there was no guarantee that the radiation would kill the tumor. The fact that her body was healthy and young meant that she was likely to survive physically long after her cancer had rendered ...

“The Cask of Amontillado” is a story of revenge told in the first-person point of view. Montresor, the killer, narrates in detail the crime he committed fifty years ago against Fortunato for “insulting” him. It was apparent that Fortunato invested a great amount of time in plotting his revenge, but it was unclear why after fifty years, he was finally telling the story that no one ever found out. This is the first hint to the complexities of the character of Montresor which, as the story progresses, contradicted then interestingly intertwined with that of Fortunato’s that in the end it ...

The poem Annabel Lee is amongst the last published works of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem is about a young, attractive girl named Annabel Lee who was very beautiful. She and the poet fell in love, a love that was pure and intense. They had eyes only for each other and their love was sufficient for them, as the poet says, “And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.” However, the angels from the heaven and the demons from the underworld were jealous of the true love that the poet and ...

There is a thin line between personal freedom of choice and the moral inclination of an individual. The choice chosen draws guidance from one’s own personal beliefs and morals. As such, there is conflict at times between what one is free to do and what their morals enable them to do. At times, whatever is to be done is legal and one is free to do them but their own morals come into conflict and stop them from the undertaking. As such, this paper will clearly discuss the concepts of freedom of options versus personal morals. An analysis of ...

Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994) was an original poet in that he could write very profound poetry without sounding pompous or condescending. Although best known for his humorous works, he mostly wrote on serious topics like love and death. One of his best poems encompassing both of these issues is “For Jane” which is widely assumed to be a lament about the death of his first love. Bukowski compresses his bewilderment, his fear, his rage and his new-found knowledge in the final stanza of the poem. The stanza begins “what you were” and that’s basically an apt summary ...

[Author] [Institutional Affiliation/University] 1) The article was written in the first person point of view. The narrator is the character speaking for his self. 2) In the story by Edgar Allan Poe, the tension primarily lies on how the character narrated how he killed the old man and how he was unable to hide his guilt in the end. Readers always want something good to happen in a story, and leading the story into murder and lies creates tension. It is similar in the Tell-Tale Heart. The tension began when the character confessed his plan to kill ...

In his Gothic tales of horror, Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the literal and figurative elements of death. This may have to do with the fact that one of his earliest memories was sitting and watching his mother cough her life away, a victim of tuberculosis. Whether it is the fear of the descending pendulum that was one of the creative torture devices of the Spanish Inquisition or the more metaphorical aspects of the Red Death, the end of life is a topic that fascinates Poe, and it infuses almost all of the elements in his stories. The connection between the ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most celebrated poets in the history of English literature. His poem, The Raven, is one of the most famous literary works in the world of arts and aesthetics. The very first line of the poem evokes a melancholy mood as the poet writes, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” (Poe 1) The poem shows the speaker sulking inside a room longing to be with his lover, Lenore. Hearing a knock at the door, he opens it, only to find no one there. When he opens the window of the room, ...

Edgar Alan Poe is an American author, poet, essayist, literary critic and editor. He is considered to be one of the representatives of the American Romanticism, the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His works contributed to the emergence of the genre of science fiction. Edgar Poe is best known for his spine-tingling and mysterious horror stories and poems. The Pit and the Pendulum is one of Poe’s famous short stories that was published in 1842. The narrator of the story is a survivor of the torture and torment in the condemned cell at Toledo – the Spanish Inquisition ...

The issue of the deeper meaning of life in the world of a book or story can easily be gleaned through a story’s tone. In the case of some works of Gothic horror, tone is an excellent way to indicate the helplessness and inexorable darkness at the heart of life. William Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein all create dark, sinister tones in their works in different ways, evincing a distinct heaviness and sense of terror lying at the deeper meaning of ...

The extract titled Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. – Seneca by Edgar Allan Poe comes from a story titled The Purloined Letter, which Poe published in 1845. The section from which the paragraph comes from is the opening paragraph of the story. Poe’s detective story features some secrets about murders and the characters act as if they are suspicious of each other and they seek to maintain secrecy. The narrator of the story narrates under a mysterious name or identity. The character does not mention their name or role in reference to the incidence occurring in the passage. He further ...

“Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’ “The Birth-Mark” and “The Cask of Amontillado” – A comparative study Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are two important contributors of the nineteenth-century American literature. Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated authors, posthumously though, of the past century. Some of his stories are almost autobiographical, and though he lived in a previous era, his ideas were far ahead of his time. Nathaniel Hawthorne is an author, whose works are even today cited for seeking ethical guidance. His stories urge the reader to analyze his moral confusions. This essay is an attempt to compare and ...

Examine the way in which the narrator of Poe’s The Raven tells the story. What does the narrator’s style of manner of narrating tell or reveal about the narrator himself? The Raven is one of the first and most popular poems that famous American writer Edgar Allen Poe wrote. For a brief background about the poem, it is one that focuses on a conversation between a man and a raven. The poem starts by depicting a scenario wherein the man is sitting in chair in front of an open window, lamenting the loss of his love named Lenore, when suddenly a raven ...

Literature has always been the thread that has weaved together the times of the human race. The aesthetic work of the writers have transcended over the ravages of time to be immortalized in the history of literature. American literature exudes the artistic richness and triumphs over the heart of the gazillion readers across the globe with the quintessential works. The student of literature can very well trace the strong links between the various phases of literary works in the nation. There are thematic commonalities which bind the works together and explore the American society to the very core. Edgar ...

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In dissecting Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, there are a few pointers that are give-aways. Gothic expressions are delivered in a bundle of narrations, which is sadistically evil and obvious. The narrator seems to justify his position by saying that he was sane. What was the need for this? In trying to do so, he was only contradicting himself. This perhaps, was the way; court cases took shape during the nineteenth century. At this point, it would be appropriate to study the social life of the people of America during the period between 1838 and 1844. ...

It is worth to record, without fear of retribution from the public opinion that Edgar Allan Poe was one of the founder writers of detective series. In the inaugural work The Murders in the Rue Morgue he author introduces the detective C. Auguste Dupin, who did a marvellous job in trying to put matters into perspective to unravel the mysteries around the murder that occurred. Later on, Sir Arthur Canon Doyle followed in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe, in terms of thematic and literary approach (Doyle, 3). A practical instance is in the book titled Conan Doyle's text A ...

The Second Amendment (U.S. citizen's right to bear arms) The Second Amendment (U.S. citizen's right to bear arms) The Second Amendment got adopted on December 15, 1791 which provided U.S. citizens the right to bear arms. The amendment led to the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007 when single gunmen shot 32 people (Virginia Tech massacre, 2014, May 3). The Second Amendment holds that, the right of an American citizen to have and keep arms were respected at all times. As a result of that statute, research indicates that over 40% of the American homesteads ...

Slavery is a form of human trafficking where people are bought, and sold to unwillingly work for someone or a country. This practice is illegal, but there are still more than 20 million slaves all over the world. For instance, Mauritania is a country that recently outlawed this practice, but still part of its population is still under slavery. This unethical practice was quoted in the bible, as an institution that has gained ground. Therefore, this means that everyone was born a slave. In ancient civilization as well as societies, slavery was a renowned phenomenon. There were various forms of slavery institutions this were; ...

Introduction This paper outlines and in details explains how the modern –day Holmes applies or extends the cinematic concepts borrowed from the early classical conventions of Conan Doyle. The comparison and contrast are crucial in understanding whether changes, extensions or imitation of the previous works have altered or improved the literature. Therefore, this rhetorical analysis is geared towards examining the characters, scenes, settings, plots, themes, and literature style of the two chronologically divided works. Because written texts and TV series are meant to satisfy the target audience, the bottom-line of scenic details is to pass the messages to the ...

Edgar Allen Poe once said, “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” There have been so many breathtaking stories, but none of them has influenced literature the way The Tell Tale Heart did with its insane character. The Tell Tale Heart is a short story published in 1843 and written by Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston in 1809. He was the son of impoverished actors, Elizabeth and David Allen Poe. He became an orphan at the age of three whereby he lost his father by desertion and ...

Compare and Contrast

The poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Blessed Damozel” written by Gabriel Rossetti are both about love. However, they deal with this in a different ways. The poem by Rossetti deals with eternal love between two people while Poe’s work is about mental anguish and the struggle that this person undergoes (Kickerbocker 471). Rossetti’s poem is about eternal love and loss, the title itself speaks of being blessed, meaning being with God or ascending to heaven. Poe’s poem is a bit more ambiguous in terms of the title. The reader will have to read the ...

Summary

The events of the narrative take place in the unnamed kingdom where the fatal epidemic called “the Red Death” spreads and kills most of its population. The illness proves to be most fatal and once the victim falls ill no cure will neither heal nor even cease the pain and bleeding caused by the “pestilence”. The overall duration of the disease is no more than half of an hour. Prince Prospero along with loyal companions from among his knights, in order to elude the contagion, resolves to retire to one of his secluded and fortified abbeys which is ...

Analysis of Poe’s Short Stories

Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s short story - “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Tell- Tale Heart” and “The Oval Portrait” – is indeed very gripping and thrilling. With every sentence that one reads more interest and curiosity builds up to know what will happen next in the story. Each of these stories is about horror, death and killing, with a great element of suspense. The Gothic element therefore is very strong in all the three short stories. Joanne Harris (Edgar Allan Poe, p.42) stated in The Telegraph that Poe is a master of horror and one of his strongholds is the detailed ...

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again." I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages. I was as much affected by the ...

‘Instructor’s name’

Short fiction is one of the oldest forms of literature and has been there throughout most part of the human civilization in the form of fairy tales, parables and myths. The current model of short literature took form sometimes during the early nineteenth century in North America, and was popularized by the periodical journals. All through the history of art many forms of literature were famous during a given era, like the drama in the sixteenth century and essays in the eighteenth century. But throughout most of the nineteenth century, novels and short stories were the most popular forms of ...