Edgar Degas

meaning look-alike. They can be a demonic form that often haunts and threatens the person to whom they are attached to. The Doppelganger may have the same name as well as features. The Doppelganger is used in literature to show it’s other self. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story William Wilson, the protagonist has a antagonist that is a ghostly double. In William Wilson the narrator is dying. He says, “Death approaches: and the shadow which forruns him has thrown a softening influence over my…

Many will speak of Edgar Allen Poe, and call him a madman, a necromaniac, and that he had to have been suffering from some sort of mental illness to write the things that he did. In actuality, Poe was an author who crafted beautiful, thought provoking stories about the simple reality of life and death. This can be proven true through several of Poe’s works, including “The Black Cat”, “The Premature Burial”, and several others. Edgar Allen Poe did have an obsession with death, but he shared this…

Tragedy strikes because of a fear, an emotion, or something much stronger than the human life. Such monomania leads the vulnerable towards the direction of death. Calamities were commonly exerted throughout the 18th-century gothic literature of Edgar Allen Poe to articulate the horror and pain he experienced. He was emerged in such turmoil, with the death of all the ones he had loved. Poe reciprocated this sadness into his own works. Using the vagueness of the storyteller, he creates…

Mirroring in “The Fall of the House of Usher” In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe, the ambiguous narrator confines himself to helping an old friend which leads to the despise of both men. Roderick Usher, who is mentally sick, requests the narrator to stay with him in his sinister looking mansion with Roderick’s sister Madeline. Concurrently the house Roderick is living in is falling apart like Roderick’s health and family. Roderick himself seems parallel in…

Of the many flaws that all of humanity exhibits, pride is certainly among them. Pride can be defined as a high or ordinate opinion of one’s own dignity or importance. Though in most cases pride is considered inappropriate, there are some times when it is seen as normal or even acceptable to obtain pride. This kind of pride being “authentic pride” (Wubben, De Cramer, Van Dijk ). For example, when one secures a long awaited promotion in their job, or when a parent watches their son or daughter…

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe as we all know it did not have a good life. Death was the center of his life. Women figures in his life always died from tuberculosis. Each death always brought a poem of his love. Poe belongs in the Romanticism period based on his works. Poes journey begins January 19, 1809 in Boston. He is born as Edgar Poe his parents are Elizabeth Poe and David Poe Jr., he was one brother who is William Henry Leonard. Both of Poes parents are actors. “They travel a lot…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, is a book about two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley. The book opens with Blanche coming to live with Stella and dragging all her problems in with her. The time period it was written and set in, 1940’s to 1950’s, is reflected in some of the major issues it tackles like class. Blanche and Stella come from what was a well-off family while Stanley was the polar opposite. By the beginning of the book, Stella has given up her…

Romantics sought to journey away from civilization and limits, and towards nature and imagination. They wanted to capture American landscape and culture and valued intuition over reasoning. American writer’s Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne both illustrate romanticism through their works. Edgar Allan Poe loved to peer into the darkness of life (“The Raven “25). As a dark romantic poem, “The Raven”, illustrates the supernatural and emotional aspect of Romanticism. “The Raven” is a poem…

The Catacombs “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story full of suspense, mystery, and irony. Edgar Allan Poe ensures that the reader is engaged as well as entertained while reading his stories by using various literary techniques such as hyperbole, suspense, mystery, and irony. The use of these literary techniques in Poe’s stories allows him to develop his plot without losing his audience’s attention. In this short story Montresor, who is the narrator, is carefully planning…

“Hell in Isolation” In his short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allen Poe investigates the negative effects of self-isolationism. Roderick Usher, a mentally ill, incestuous, and secluded man, requests the narrator’s help. Upon his arrival, the narrator notices eerie attributes of the “melancholy” (3) house of Usher, while walking through clouds of miasma. The narrator then witnesses Roderick’s extreme paranoia, which stems from his solitude. The narrator also catches…