Eureka: A Prose Poem

Oscar Wilde is often regarded as the most notorious writers of the Victorian-era and one of the most famous writers of all time through his controversial works. His writing has inspired and influenced many through his commentary on his society and the shallow nature of people, while also being considered a martyr for the homosexual movement. His most notorious work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is often regarded as a reflection of his life, homosexuality, and his religious upbringing. Wilde used…

Simple claim: This short story is about a man named, Montresor, which claims had been insulted by his acquaintance, Fortunato, and he seeks for revenge. This passage is when Montresor encounters Fortunato during the carnival. Fortunato is very drunk and is dressed like carnival buffoon. Montresor uses this opportunity to fool Fortunato and starts his revenge. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a story of vengeance, madness, and murder. Montresor, who is the vile narrator, tells us his profound hate…

Short Story Literary Analysis Anger and redemption are are traits in all humans, but some take it too far. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado, the protagonist of the story, Montresor takes his anger as far as building a wall around his enemy, Fortunato. Readers learn Montresor built the wall around him because Fortunato publicly humiliated him in the past which causes this anger. First of all, Montresor methodically planned out the death of Fortunato before hand. In addition, Montresor…

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.” These are the words of one author, Edgar Allan Poe. Known for his hair-raising tales, he has been considered an unusual man for many years. In one of his eerie stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, there have been many arguments over if the narrator is sane or psychotic. There are many arguments for both sides of the debate, but one particular quote stands out. “Hearken! And observe…

Edgar Allan Poe grew up having a life which would have been hard for anyone to deal with, yet he did it and managed to benefit from his hardships by writing about his misfortunes. From a young age, Poe felt abandoned and lost, which resulted in his turning to writing as a lifestyle rather than just a hobby or a passion. His hard life resulted in Poe writing in the gothic style, with much emphasis on the darker side of human nature and the dark, twisted parts of the world. Edgar Allan Poe fosters…

On October 7, 1849, the romantic Edgar Allan Poe perished at the Washington College Hospital. The cause of his death has been widely debated for 67 years. However, recently discovered evidence regarding a possible brain tumor has ignited a possible solution. The discovery of a “hardened mass” located in the skull’s interior, common symptoms, documents, and witness testimonies have caught the attention of hundreds of people, and might just as well prove to solve the ultimate mystery. In 1875,…

Poe’s Narrators/ Unreliable Narrators In Edgar Allan Poe’s stories there sometimes tends to be an unreliable narrator in the story. We can see that in his 3 stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “That Black Cat”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Those stories show characteristics of an unreliable narrator. We can mostly see it in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Everyone of Poe’s stories has a gruesome and traumatic ending which add on to that insane and unreliable sense. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator is…

“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, which a story that revolves around the vivid memory of the narrator’s calculated moves, from inception to the murder itself. The narrator bares his soul, and his strong sense of paranoia to justify his sanity, but in the end, confirms his ‘madness’ by the vile act of murder he commits. The narrator reveals the profound truth, of how untruthful and deceiving the human heart could be, and at the same time, how it can be…

Raymond Carver is one of the men accredited for reviving the contemporary short story genre. He was an excessive drinker and this shaped his stories along with the qualities of minimalism and dirty realism. Edward Hopper was an American painter that specialized in realism. Hopper’s artwork depicted the accurate, detailed, and embellished nature of contemporary life. Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” and Edward Hopper’s painting Room in New York both exhibit someone examining a…

Baldwin 1 Brittany Baldwin Hensley English 11/second period 27 Februrary 2018 Part 12: Rough Draft#1 Ambrose Bierce short story The Boarded Window is very interesting, when you read The Boarded Window you think that it’s just about a man and his wife that had pass when he was young but it’s very grim at the middle and the end of the story. Bierce new how to get the reader interested in the story. At the end of the story he really threw off the reader, in the short story The Boarded Window…