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Edgar Allan Poe: Guilty Conscience, 2006.
An exploration of some of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
2,120 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper explores the works of Edgar Allan Poe,by looking at the man behind the book. The author specifically centers on the two most famous works of Poe, "Tell- Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" by examining the attitudes of the characters and how they are portrayed and what message the books are trying to give.The author concludes that with the similarities and differences between these two main works of Edgar Allan Poe, it is easy to see why Poe is considered one of the most controversial writers of all time and why has been criticized and also had much honor.
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"The task of the narrator begins with careful planning, but in the end his guilty conscience creates his downfall. For seven days, the narrator watches the old man while he sleeps. The narrator's comments show his confidence and courage in his plan to kill: "Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers - of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe 810). The narrator's comfort in his evil act continued even when the police came to check on the old man and investigate the loud noises neighbors heard the night before: "I smiled,-for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome" (Poe 813). However, the narrator's mind is quickly consumed with guilt, which creates his figment of the imagination of hearing the old man's heartbeat from under the flooring."
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"The Oblong Box" by Edgar Allan Poe, 2008.
A review of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Oblong Box".
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper examines the importance of the setting in the book, "The Oblong Box", by Edgar Allan Poe. The paper first explains that when considering the settings in any story, it is important to consider the geographical location, the time, weather conditions, social conditions, and the mood. The paper then looks at how all of these parts of the setting play an important role in the story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The paper also points out that time of the story is important because it helps to build the suspense of the story as time (in the short story) is delayed without explanation.
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"First, consider the place where the story takes place. The place is the packet-ship called, Independence. Poe tells how the ship would have many passengers and one of the passengers is a man called Mr. Cornelius Wyatt who is an artist and having been a fellow-student with him at the C--- University. This is an important part of the setting that will lead the story from one point to another as the narrator tries to find out why Wyatt is not friendly and even to the death of Wyatt in the last section of the story. Included in the setting is the fact that Mr. Wyatt having three state rooms with these rooms being roomy."
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Edgar Allan Poe, 2008.
A review of the background of Edgar Allan Poe, the American short-story writer who is well known for his tales of the macabre.
1,366 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the writer Edgar Allan Poe. The paper specifically discusses how his writings are dark and filled with death. From a very early age, Edgar Allan Poe seems to have been obsessed with the topic of death, and many (or most) of his works are dark, brooding pieces filled with mystery, dark deeds, and the death of at least one character, or the lingering theme of death. The paper questions why Poe was so consumed with death and dying.
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" He writes, "He also offered his famous pronouncement that 'the death of a beautiful woman is the purest of all poetical themes'". Thus, Poe recognized this theme recurred in his works, and found it both satisfying and pure, elements of his fiction that might not seem satisfying and pure to others. After losing his parents and living in a foster home, Poe met Mrs. Jane Stith Stanard, who he became very fond of, and many people believe he loved. He wrote the poem "To Helen" to her, but her life ended tragically, as well. An early Poe biographer writes, "Mrs. Stanard soon went mad and died. "
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The Case of Edgar Allan Poe, 2004.
A look at the controversy surrounding the life and death of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
2,085 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper examines how, since his death, there have been two different people with the name of Edgar Allen Poe. It looks at how many readers now believe Edgar Allan Poe was a drunkard and a drug addict who suffered from insanity. This paper points out why and how Poe's reputation was desecrated after his death and looks into both the falsehoods and truths of his life.
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"Griswold and Poe became acquainted in 1841 in connection to an anthology of poetry on which Griswold was working. Poe had given him some advice in regards to poets and works that he felt should be included in the book, but Griswold disregarded Poe?s advice. After the book was published, Poe, who was a critic, stated in a review that some of the poets who made their appearance were ?too mediocre to entitle them to particular notice?. Still, overall the review was a good one, but the negative comment angered Griswold. When a later review that was highly negative of both the book and Griswold?s talents was published anonymously, he assumed that Poe was responsible for that review."
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Henry and Edgar Poe: One Poetic Voice, 2001.
A look at Edgar Allan Poe's connection with his brother Henry and how it influenced his poetry.
3,340 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 12 sources, $ 95.95
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This paper presents an overview of the poetic relationship between the Edgar Allen Poe and his brother, Henry, and how that is reflected in Edgar Poe's poetry.
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In late October of 1829, Edgar Poe wrote one of his most revealing letters to his friend and confidant John Neal, editor of the Yankee magazine of Portland, Maine, in which he declares ?there can be no tie more strong than that of brother for brother. . . their affections are always running in the same direction?the same channel and cannot help mingling.? These ?affections? generally concern the familial ties of Henry and Edgar Poe, but a deeper interpretation lies within the kinship associated with their poetry composed between 1827 and 1831, a consociation infused with states of extreme melancholy, a fascination with the dead and lucid dreaming which conveys ?a collaborative attempt to give their kindred feelings a single voice.?
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J. Edgar Hoover, 2002.
This essay is a look at the life and legacy of FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 78.95
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This paper is a biographical overview of J. Edgar Hoover and his role as director of the FBI. The author details his five decades of reform, power and how he abused it. The paper also examines his controversial personality and lifestyle.
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"The life and legacy of J. Edgar Hoover is a subject of countless books, files and theories. Rumors surrounding this man run rampant. He single-handedly created the FBI we know today, but through a scheme of illegal and amoral activities. Hoover was the most effective and powerful director of the FBI, from 1924 to 1972. He created the FBI as a separate and distinct faction of the Department of Justice, and garnered public support for his activities. He fought communism, espionage, foreign sabotage, and organized crime. Ruthless in his ways, cunning in his schemes, Hoover?s influence on past and current laws and enforcement goes unchecked and unmatched by any other."
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Edgar Allen Poe's Tales, 2007.
This paper examines Edgar Allan Poe's style of writing, with a focus on "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death".
1,002 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses themes employed by Edgar Allan Poe, such as reincarnation, perversity and retribution and/or revenge. The paper shows how Poe was fascinated with the mysterious and the macabre and knew about human psychology. The paper conveys the descriptive narration in "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death". The paper discusses how these two tales represent the genius of Edgar Allan Poe as a writer and master of the supernatural, the strange and the bizarre.
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"The Black Cat" appears to contain a number of themes that fascinated its author Edgar Allan Poe, such as reincarnation, perversity (i.e. a form of weirdness) and retribution and/or revenge. In the tale itself, Poe mentions that the main protagonist (an unnamed narrator) has experienced "a series of mere household events" that have "tortured" and destroyed him (234), due to having Pluto, a black cat, as a pet, a most beautiful animal, coal-black all over, taken in by the narrator and his wife. This unknown narrator, perhaps Poe himself, seems to have a serious problem with alcohol, for he states that at times he is driven insane with drink and ends up doing things that go against his morals. He calls alcohol "the Fiend Intemperance" which means that alcohol, at least for the narrator, is like a fiend or a demon that attacks the mind and leads to utter destruction."
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The Darkness Within: Imagining Edgar Allen Poe, 2002.
A review of the theme of darkness in the novels "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the poem "For Annie" by Edgar Allen Poe.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper explores two stories by Edgar Allen Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Pit and the Pendulum". These stories are considered in relation to a poem Poe wrote called, "For Annie", a verse written for a friend of his, Annie Richmond. The theme of this paper is about "darkness," where darkness is a metaphor that imbues Poe's horror stories with themes of consciousness and experiences with terror. Because Poe was especially interested in the susceptibility of the imagination, this paper attempts to "imagine" Edgar Allen Poe in relation to varying metaphors of darkness that characterize the author's life and literature.
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Edgar Degas, 2002.
A review of the work of the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.
898 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines the art of Edgar Degas, a French Impressionist painter noted most for his ability to portray motion and sponteity in his work. It discusses how one of his favorite subjects to paint was dance and how his obsession with the female form drove him to become more skilled at painting dancing woman than anyone before or since. It looks at how none of his paintings were ever comissioned and he preferred to paint women going through the moments of daily life, unaware of the candid insights of voyeuristic beauty to be gained from their skilled observation.
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"Degas has captured young ballerinas of the Paris opera house at their most natural, when they are practicing unselfconsciously behind the scenes, not performing for the public. The ballet dancers resemble a sequence in a movie, all of the same fascinating for their totally innovating cuts, for the decentralized pagination, for the unusual angularity: in this sense, it is evident the influence from the orientalism, highly fashionable at his time, and from Japanese prints, of which Degas was a fond collector. "
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat", 2006.
This paper discusses critics of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat".
1,505 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that Edgar Allan Poe, who is known for his "scary" stories such as "The Black Cat", uses descriptive narrative to get the reader intensely interested in what is going on, what the characters are doing and thinking, and what the climax will be in the story. The author reviews criticisms of "The Black Cat", such as that of William Henry Smith, who 159 years ago contended that Poe's reasoning was absurd and immoral. The paper relates that today Poe is considered to be a genius. The paper continues to describe the story.
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"So, what to do with the body? He places the corpse inside a wall by removing the bricks, putting his dead wife in there, and replacing the bricks. "Having procured mortar, sand, and hair, with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster that could not possibly be distinguished from the old." This took some careful planning, but a madman can do these things, readers are to understand after working through "A Black Cat." After burying his wife, he now seeks out the cat that has been so much of a problem to him."
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Edgar Allan Poe, 2003.
An analysis of the personal and historical context of the work of Edgar Allan Poe.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines the personal and historical context of Edgar Allan Poe's work. It focuses in on Poe's handling of human nature in three stories: "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tale-Tell Heart," and "The Black Cat," and the poem, "The Raven."
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"Edgar Allan Poe is known as the writer of ghost stories .And while it's certainly true that many of his tales have the requisite elements of ghost stories, ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night, they are much more than simply attempt to .."
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Edgar Allan Poe, 2002.
Discusses the life and works of author, Edgar Allan Poe.
525 words (approx. 2.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 21.95
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This paper examines the works of Edgar Allan Poe and his life. The influence his life played in his works is addressed.
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Edgar Allan Poe, 2002.
A discussion of the work of Edgar Allan Poe, with an emphasis on his preoccupation with death.
1,895 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper examines how Edgar Allan Poe shows a fascination with death, disease and decay in his stories and poems and how he uses symbolism to represent death and dying as something that takes place not separate from life, but deeply embedded within it. Through a review of some of his works, it shows how Poe mixes life and death in a variety of ways, so much so that he seems to show a morbid fascination with the processes of dying and with the symbolism of death. It evaluates how his preoccupation with death and more specifically with death-in-life is seen in so many of his short stories.
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"A similar combination of time and death is expressed in the poem "The Raven," where the poet emphasizes that the events described take place at midnight when the black bird appears. Critic Vincent Buranelli emphasizes the dual meaning of the poem. The surface meaning is the narrative, with the poet asking questions of the raven and hearing the repeated "Nevermore, " leading to the final question of whether he and his mistress will ever be reunited--"Nevermore." The second meaning, says Buranelli, has to be interpreted through the symbols of the poem and through suggestive signs which represent ideas hidden below the surface. The principal symbol is the raven, which with its jet black feathers and harsh croak has been accepted by common consent to represent fate."
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Edgar Allan Poe, 2005.
A biographical account of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at Edgar Allan Poe, his life and his work, and how they were affected by alcoholism. It looks at how the theme of alcoholism crept into his stories by having alcoholics as characters, or characters descending into madness from drinking. It shows that despite his drinking problems, Poe produced masterpieces that have world wide acclaim and are still high on the reading list of mystery lovers today.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Short Stories, 2008.
Compares two short stories "Metzengerstein" and "A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains" by Edgar Allan Poe.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses Edgar Allan Poe's "Metzengerstein" and "A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains" by examining the relationship between symbolic imagery and the human psyche in these short stories. The author points out that in "Metzengerstein", Poe's uses the physical object of a tapestry to symbolize the acute madness that is befalling the protagonist Frederick Baron Metzengerstein. The paper then relates ways that Poe's literary techniques and devices are used for specific purposes in "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains". The paper concludes that, in both of these short stories, Poe is advocating the idea that what may appear to be is not always what it is.
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"In addition to the short story "Metzengerstein," the similar use of a physical object to allegorize a character's psyche can also be seen in Poe's short story "A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains." Daniel J. Philippon (1998) discusses this specific literary technique of Poe's in his article "Poe in the Ragged Mountains' Environmental History And Romantic Aesthetics." Philippon explains how most of Poe's stories explore the internal landscape of his characters at the expense of the physical world."
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