The tenets of romanticism are; individualism, exotic, evil, imagination, nature, and common man. ... Evil is portrayed when Poe decides to stuff his dead wife behind the wall. ... The old man's "walking stick" is an example of evil because it has the shape of a snake. When Young Goodman Brown goes into the forest and meets the "old man", who carries the walking stick, he is meeting the devil himself. The walking stick represents the evil that young Goodman brown is so close to being part of, when he is offered the stick. ...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Poe was a man who had experiences with a disease that killed many people in his lifetime. ... It is a literal representation of death walking among the living. ... At the scene of the death, an enraged Prince seeks to slay the Red Death, but as soon as he raised his dagger against the Red Death, The Prince fell dead. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

"The Black Cat," written by Edgar Allan Poe, is a unique story about a man and his relationship with a cat. ... Another example would be throughout the program you could hear the characters actions like walking, knocking, even hearing when something falls, when Edgar Allan Poe goes to strict the second cat and mistakenly hits his wife, its very clear when she falls to the ground letting the listener know she is dead. ...

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