Along with setting, Poe's strange characters tell a romantic tale by their bizarre and weird qualities. ... Prince Prospero's taste for weird things show's his illness within. " There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments- This quote is describing the rooms that the prince has in his household, which reflect on his personality. ... His characters, which tend to show weird qualities and taste, have the outside reflecting the in. ...

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He was an author of supernatural stories, which were seen in both weird tradition and in American letters at large. ... Whatever the outstanding characteristics of Bierce's stories and the style of his writing, Bierce has an assured place in the history of the weird tale. ... Chambers, Lord Dunsany, and Lovecraft; and the influence that swept through these authors was in time felt by such modern writers of the weird as Carl Jacobi, Charles Beaumont, Rod Serling, among many others. ...

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Out of all the old, weird things, he has a mirror that "was fabled that the spirits of all the doctor's deceased patients dwelt within its verge, and would stare him in the face whenever he looked thitherward- (503). ...

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Similarities between at Shindler's and Closer The first two stories by David Malouf in the book of short stories "Dream Stuff", even though completely discrete and creative in their own right, share several similarities. Malouf has said that many of the stories Dream Stuff were begun as long as ...

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The Things They Carried & A Soldier's Sweetheart Difference Between Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong & A Soldier's Sweetheart Once a successful novel hits the market, producers are inclined to adapt the story into a movie. Since imagination, symbolism, and character psyches are explored in a nove...

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The Road to Adulthood The usual thoughts of people who are in their mid-teens are far from the truth about maturity. At the ages of fifteen and sixteen, everything is beginning to change. Licenses are earned, higher levels of academics are faces, and more physical changes take place. "A Sunrise...

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Many times she sees her father ignore Layton's weird behaviour "Sam knew that her father wouldn't tolerate poaching, so she let it for him to take care of her father just looked hard at the shotgun and started loading the boat" (p. 2, line 46-48). ...

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