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Edgar Allen Poe wrote the short story The Cask of Amontillado in 1846 as a tale of mystery and horror. Poe has exceeded the expectations of creativity in forming a work of literature and adeptly draws in the attention of very scholarly readers. This is proven in the fluency and brilliance of his story and proceed to be made known in his other works of literature as well. In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe applies irony, allusions, and hyperboles to prove to the readers the supremacy of his…

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story about the killing of an old man. Poe, who is the murderer, talks about what made him decide to kill the old man. In his mind, he despises not the old man, but his pale blue eye. Nonetheless, he discerns himself as being “nervous” rather than “mad”. By doing this, he also conveys the idea of obsession over the old man's discriminating eye. This idea blossoms as he continues to explain his argument of “madness vs nervousness” in conjunction…

describes Fortunato as wearing a "tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells."(116). Montresor persuades Fortunato to come and take a look at the pipe of Amontillado that he has attained. Montresor tells us that all of his servants are out of the house for the night, so they have the house all to themselves. They walk down the staircase leading into the catacombs and with Fortunato being drunk he keeps coughing, Montresor says that he is concerned…

Allan Poe’s the form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of liability and not feeling accountable for your actions What is the telltale to say if a man is mad or not? A man may talk like a wise man, and yet act insane. In Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator portrayed a story that he killed the old man because of his “evil eye" that made his blood run cold. Although the narrator tried to persuade the reader that he was normal, several pieces of evidence for confusing…

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart” and this is a short story narrative told by the narrator describing a murder that he commits. The narrator is trying to `explain how he is sane but has over-acuteness of senses. He lives with an old man who has a vulture-like eye that drives the narrator to kill the old man. The narrator watches the old man for 7 days, and, on the 8th night, when he accidently wakes the old man, and reveals his vulture eye, the narrator attacks and smothers the old…

Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 2nd Edition. Ed. Robert Diyanni. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. 165-166. Print. Christopher Benfey discusses the approach Edgar Allan Poe uses when he composes his short stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Benfey suggests that Poe writes in an approach to confuse his readers through the narrators by having them want to confess their acts of murder. He goes on to talk about how Poe is focusing on not why they murdered, but…

In the words of Isabella Poretsis “All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different” (Goodreads Inc., 2014). This is the case in Edgar Allan Poe’s work “The Tale Tell Heart”. In Poe’s story the narrator has no hate for the old man that he is taking care of. In fact in the text the narrator admits that he loved the old man. He did not have any desire for the man’s money but showed that he despised the old man’s eye. In fact the old man’s…

Inbreeding: It is something that we feel, as a society, we have moved entirely away from, and yet it still haunts and evokes a deep fear within us that something so sinister could have happened among us. Edgar Allen Poe, in his work the Fall of the House of Usher, brings the sinister consequences of inbreeding front and center, yet he still manages to do it quite subtly. One of many themes, inbreeding is key to fully understanding the plot and the deeper messages of the Fall of the House of…

similar themes and traits. The use of a narrator in telling the story is one similarity. The themes involve isolation, fear, blood, and death. They are all spooky, eerie tales. The purpose of this paper is to show the similarities used in “The Tell Tale Heart,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Fall of the…

That definitely leads to more anxiety, tension and psychological illness. "The Physiognomical meaning of Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'" announces that a healthy soul must find a harmony in the human being as "animal, moral being and intellectual one" (Pitcher 231). However, the second and third aspects are the ones we are interested in for discussing Edgar's story. The…