In "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the personality of Montresor is explicitly demonstarted to the audience through numerous literary techniques employed by Poe throughout the story. ... This statement is a shining example of Montresor's fascination with dramatic revenge. ... But he wants it on his own terms, and to reach those he must commit the actions that transpire in the story before he might possibly be satisfied with Fortunado's doom. ... The entire story acts in many ways, as an in depth look into the mental state of a man and as such, Poe's literary methods...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The literary crafts used in "The Fall of the House of Usher"" and their effects, materializing the terror and the mystery, are what this paper is going to examine subsequently. ... By embodying multiple doppelganger, not only did Poe boost the intense spook, but he reached a unprecedented success of unifying terror and literary beauty. ... Take the final part for example; after living in the houses for days, the narrator started to hear some usually sounds and at last he burst out in such dramatic tone as "... ... Bailey claims that, "...to assume that Poe made use of vampire lore, skillfull...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or Thanatos, Life Drive or Eros, Melancholy, Displacement, Dream Work, Fixation, Guilt, Sublimation and Traumatic Neurosis; all of which will be defined and discussed in due order. ... Gothic Literature The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reas...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate