In the story Edgar Allen Poe is explaining his problematic situation that he finds himself in when he falls madly in love with his cat however soon becomes enraged with hatred towards the animal that leads him to even kill the animal. Throughout the story the reader gets the feeling of a gray strange feeling as they read more and more through out the story, which is why in the beginning before the story begins Edgar Allen Poe gives a foreshadow of how the story ends with his death being sentenced to him. ... In the program where Peter Lorre was reading and acting out the story of the Black Cat...

• Word Count: 849
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe may only be six pages long but his use of language, and in depth character and scene descriptions will make anyone think twice about what he or she has just read. ... One of the key literary characteristics is Poe's use of language. ... As if the sophisticated phrases weren't enough Poe went and used some Latin terms in the story. ... The picture that Poe paints in the reader's mind about each scene really proves the story is a true literary piece. ... Poe describes the Montresor wine cellar and the wine kept in it. ...

• Word Count: 557
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Fall of the House of Usher The nineteenth century heralded the birth of one of the greatest Gothic writers of all time - Edgar Allen Poe. Poe captivated audiences by inducing a sense of dread in the reader, which was unparalleled by any other author. ... Poe believed that the worst occurrence one could endure was mental disintegration. ... One can tell that Poe uses his own fears to induce a feeling of terror in the reader. ... These fears haunted Poe all his life, and what better way to convey them then through his legacy - his writings. ...

• Word Count: 1040
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator, Montressor, lures a man named Fortunado down into his family's crypt to kill him. The reason for this is never but we are told from Montressor, "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge" (Poe, Paragraph 1). ... These three stories have similar components; while Poe and Faulkner both use of dark humor and irony in their stories, all three have the overarching theme of mental illness. ...

• Word Count: 799
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the nineteenth century there was a literary transformation going on in America that changed many writers" approach and mind-set to writing. This transformation was known as know as Romanticism. William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Copper and Edgar Allen Poe were major cont...

• Word Count: 299
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Comparing former and semi-modern times, Edgar Allen Poe writes about an incredibly fatal disease that has already killed off half of the kingdom at the beginning of the story. ... I believe Poe and Preston did a great job with diction. ... Poe's descriptions of locations and setting gave me chills as I read about what happened in each room. ...

• Word Count: 815
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Edgar Allen Poe's state of mind can easily be seen in most of his writings as dark, hopeless, and filled with death; such as one would feel when in the depression stage of being bipolar. ... Bipolar disorder may have affected so many people throughout the years but it's because of this psychological disorder that we know such great individuals such as Poe, Van Gogh, and Tchaikovsky and their most beautiful and masterful works that have inspired and influenced so many generations after them. ...

• Word Count: 622
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Boys from Brazil tells the fictional story of an ex-Nazi, Dr Joseph Mengele. He plans to produce ninety-four clones of Adolf Hitler. He perfected his techniques by experimenting on twins in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Mengele sends out young baby boys to be adopted around the world. The bo...

• Word Count: 870
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Critics point out that authors like Dashiell Hammett, who shaped the genre during this era, reinvented the crime fiction style popularized by such predecessors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe in several key ways. ...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate