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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'
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A 7 page paper discussing the element of revenge within an extremely tightly woven story and how this story was a commentary by Poe on his disdain of the aristocracy and all that they stood for, as well as his personal belief in the cruelty of society. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' / Revenge # 2
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This 6 page essay explores the deed of revenge in Poe's story. Montressor believes he has been endured many injuries at the hands of Fortunato but when Fortunato insults him, he cannot take that and he carefully plans revenge. There is only one moment in the last scene when he hesitates, a moment of remorse or guilt? If is is, it does not stop him from following his plan to its end.
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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Masque Of Red Death' / Theme Of Plague
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A 5 page paper providing a psychological analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. The paper concludes that Poe wrote about a plague because the sheer number of beloved people who had died during his lifetime must have seemed like a plague to him. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'
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This 5 page report discusses Edgar Allan Poe's 'detective' story with an eye to the attitudes of class consciousness and superiority demonstrated by the main character, C. Auguste Dupin, in relationship to the Prefect of the Parisian Police. No additional sources cited.
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Edgar Allan Poe's Mysterious Death
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10 pages in length. For nearly a century and a half, speculation has surrounded the untimely death of Edgar Allan Poe. But now there is new evidence suggesting he did not die drunk, but rather from another malady entirely. The writer shows us how Poe's life, full of sorrow and disappointment, may have ultimately lead to his early demise.
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Horror at Home: The Domestic Setting of Poe’s Gothics
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A 3 page paper pointing out that most of Poe’s Gothic stories and poems have very normal, ordinary settings. The paper argues that this reflects the uncertainty of American life as opposed to the relative stability of England during the same period. No additional sources.
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Interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe
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A 7 page paper examining the way three famous writers interpreted Edgar allan poe, with a special focus on his short story 'The Masque of the Red Death'. Critiques by William Butler Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.P. Lovecraft are compared, contrasted, and analyzed. Four sources including the story itself.
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Revenge in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”
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A 7 page paper looking at the theme of revenge and victimization in this horror story by Edgar Allan Poe. The paper concludes that Poe deliberately left open the question of whether Fortunato was the only victim of Montresor’s diabolical revenge, or whether the ultimate revenge was on Montresor himself. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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The Individual and Society in Poe and Garcia Marquez
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An eight page paper looking at the complex interrelationship between the individual and society, and reality and illusion, in these two authors. Works discussed are Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.” The paper concludes that in both stories an edifice is created which is not real -- but in Poe’s story it is created by an individual’s attempt to protect himself against society, and in Garcia Marquez’ it is created by society’s attempt to put blinders on the individual. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Keats and Garrison; a Comparison
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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the styles of two poets John Keats 'La Belle Da Mesans Merci' and Deborah Garrison's 'She Was Waiting To Be Told'. The ways in which the poems are similar and contrast is discussed using phrases from each to demonstrate the observations made. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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