In the beginning he was introduced as a poet then he became a famous short story writer of the uncanny, but he kept writing poems. ... After reading some of his short stories and his biography I found his characters more interesting and I decided to write my paper on a few of them. In my paper I will focus on some of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories to analyze the perfect combination of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and his characters. The protagonists of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are the main attractions for the readers. ... The unnamed narrators of the "The Tell-Tale H...

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Some of the most striking similarities can be found between "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", two short stories that divulge the inner workings of a perverse mind. First, The plot of these stories is similar in many ways. ... In "Heart", the narrator suffered from insanity and the obvious obsessive disorder. ... Denying his insanity, the narrator from "Heart" is very similar to the man in "The Black Cat", which denies his belief in the superstition of black cats. ... As in most Poe stories, biting and mutilation appear in both. ...

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Short story analysis of: The Cask of Amontillado By: Edgar Allen Poe In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known Tales of horror, "The Cask Of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing. ... From one of these depended a short chain, from the other a padlock. ... Poe also implemented styles of realism and gothic into this story. ... Poe in this particular story used the first person participant narration in which the Montresor ("I") is narrating the story where other characters as well as Montresor participate. ... Another literary device Poe used many times in thi...

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"The Fall of the House of Usher," " a short story published in 1939, is one of the most popular fictional narratives of Edgar Allan Poe. ... This mythic tale, and Poe's other terror short stories alike, aims at arousing readers' sense of inner disgust or terror, as Poe himself stated in his preface to "Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque"" (1840) that the terror he meant to create was "not of the Germany, but of the soul." ... To specify, Lady Madeline is a parallel of Roderick Usher; the twin sister is the identical "ghost " to him and haunted him, resulting in his insanity and...

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This relates directly to the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in the subject formation of the main character. ... In the beginning of the story he is confident, but as he tells his story, it becomes clear that he is struggling to hold onto sanity. ... This becomes evident in his work, perhaps suggesting that Poe himself may have been fighting against insanity. ... Poe's character appears to be "a prisoner of nothing but himself" and his own insanity. ... Or was Poe simply writing a story, with no other implied meaning but that of imagination? ...

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Insanity is described as an extreme state of foolishness and irrationality. Although the narrator of Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, let's his lack of sound reasoning drive him to murder, he perceives himself to be a cunning and powerful master of fate in his plea to justify his sanity. ... During the cryptic story, the narrator ignores to address his own deranged behavior; for example he watched the old man while he was asleep, by peeking his head through the door of the bedroom for entire week before he was slain. The story lacks any concrete details as to why t...

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This idea is clearly portrayed throughout the poem "The Raven" and short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... Things that that killer obsesses about are brought up several times in the short story. ... He constantly claims sanity, but it only causes him to seem more insane and his "erratic and confused language" amplifies his insanity ("The Tell-Tale Heart" 346). ... Poe incorporates himself into his short stories with his dark, poetic writing style as means of representing the evil in him as well as the evil in society. ... In the short story "The Tell-Tell Heart" and poem "The Raven", Poe has ...

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Moreover, the short story consists of an old man with whom the narrator's relationship is a bit hazy, despite the narrator's comment of "For his gold I had no desire" fits the way that the old man may be a relative whose death can fiscally profit the writer (53). ... The story starts of with disloyalty by attempting to persuade the reader he is not crazy, however the reader rapidly derives the writer as someone wild. ... His dis-trustfulness towards the man made his heart beat even faster and in his condition of insanity he admits to murdering the old man with expectations of freeing...

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The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Imp of the Perverse." 2. ... The fact that he constantly hears the tormenting pulsation of the old man's heart, when no one else seems to hear it, only makes his insanity more obvious not only to the reader but also to the mysterious person that is listening to his tale. ... THE INP OF THE PERVERSE IN POE'S "THE TELL-TALE HEART" Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," is a short story very similar to the same author's later published story (...

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An Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Main Characters In each of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe writes each main character with different personalities although some similar traits can be found in all his main characters. ... He starts off the story by convincing the reader he is not a madman. Insanity is one personality trait that is usually linked to all Poe characters. ... Both characters had well planned murder plots in each story. ... In both stories they refer to their murder victims ...

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The "Tale-Tale Heart" is a famous short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. ... The story's two essential characters are the narrator and the old man, who go unnamed throughout the tale. ... If we analyze this theory further, we can recall that the only bit of color highlighted in the story is the old man's evil blue eye. ... As a final point, through the whole story, which is basically his confession, the narrator's actions mark his insanity abundantly clear; for example: sitting down on the mattress after he smothers the old man, hiding the body inside the house, and l...

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He saw himself as a poet, but it were his stories which made him rather famous. ... He grows extremely close with a man who stays with him for a short while, although this is due to a slight imperfection in the man. ... He was actually just doing his job, he was an author so of course he wrote stories, most of which spark people so greatly that even today they criticize him. ... Whether Poe wrote of death because of depression, disease, personal losses, insanity, or simply because he may have been the only man bold enough to face the one thing that everyone fears, he will always be famous for...

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I read many of his short stories and realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. ... For the purpose of this Essay I shall analyze four of Poe's short stories; "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," The Masque of The Red Death," and "The Tell-tale Heart." ... This is just another instance in which the reader wonders what is the driving force behind the narrator's insanity. Even though there are many more elements to Edgar Allan Poe's short stories than just his creative use of narration and setting, these are characteristics, which have at...

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