(4282 words) I have chosen to research and write my Extended Essay on Edgar Allan Poe and his portrayal of perversion, which is present in every human's heart. ... 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." ... (p.13) Perversion, he believes, is "...one of the primitive impulses of the human heart." ... Poe constructs this story in such a way that the events of the tale remain somewhat ambiguous. ... (p.12) Even though the narrator denies th...

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• Grade Level: High School

Along with his views on this culture, Hawthorne uses irony, tales of witchcraft, and the concepts of guilt, confession, and hypocrisy to show his feelings on the Puritanical society and the way they treat other people. ...

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When she tells the blind man goodbye, he asks if he can touch her face. ... Finally, Robert tells the narrator to close his eyes, and continue to draw. ... "It was like nothing else in my life up to now," he tells the reader. Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... The narrator then tells the story of how his wife met the blind man. ...

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• Grade Level: High School