Stanley Edgar Hyman

Hop-Frog is a dark revenge story by Edgar Allan Poe, that perfectly captures human capacity of evil. In Dark Romaticism, the protagonists are similar to antagonists because they are all prone to sin. The “good guy” would have a dark side and capacity for evil. As such, The protagonist in Hop-Frog is portraited as cruel and inhumane as his nature. With that being said, All the characters malevolent motives and actions are indicative of the Dark Romantic Movement. Hop Frog and his friend…

Tell-Tale Heart Can you imagine yourself in a dark room with a possibility of a random man there trying to kill you? Well this is the main character action towards the old man. In the story Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe this is the issue the main character goes through. The main character wants to kill the old man because of the way his eye looks. However, every night he goes into the old man 's house to kill him his eye is closed. So he doesn 't have the anger the kill the man and his…

popular movies and even real situations that end up being dangerous because of a dark secret. A story compared to the Lottery 's continuous theme of a dark, untold secret that can have repercussions till the end is, “The Murders in Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. This short story by Poe is most known for is mystery that…

Edgar Allen Poe’s A Tell Tale Heart is classified as a naturalism piece. Naturalism often employs the idea of men being ‘beasts’ and in the case of the narrator, he is the beast. It is evident from the very first line that the narrator is not completely…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “the Birth Mark” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Both have many connecting elements, especially the theme of “Strength as their own destruction.” In both stories the protagonist has an obsession that leads to their demise. They both take pride in things that cause fatalities in their lives. And last, they both take these two reasons as justification for playing God. I believe that the characters have a considerable amount of pride in their abilities that they…

say “Verbal irony is nonliteral language that makes salient a discrepancy between expectations and reality” (286). In other words this is when someone says something and they mean the opposite of what was said. A few examples of when Poe uses this type of irony is seen when Montresor tells Fortunato that they should leave the catacombs; for his health was more important than sampling the expensive wine that Montresor had told Fortunato that he had found. Another time that the reader sees this…

Hyphens, he uses hyphens in many different places , one is ‘I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight’ when we read it we realize that the narrator is jumpy and he had a crazy “like” state of mind. This adds to the tension and suspense in the story. Poe also uses Rhetorical Questions this challenges the reader and then makes the reader ask themselves the question, because it is hard to find the answer; ‘ How then am I mad?’ When the narrator asks this question you don’t know…

His job as a salesman is the quintessential 20th Century American Dream job. He swings like a pendulum between the two versions of the dream and often finds himself in a very unclear middle ground. Miller himself observed in a notebook entry "Life is formless … its interconnections are formed by lapses of time, by events occurring in separated places, by the hiatus of memory" (Miller, 130). Willy's belief in the success promised by his somewhat confused version of the American Dream is not…

Scopes: The Battle over America’s Soul The battle between science and nature seems to be one that is never ending. One of the times when this battle came to a head was in 1925 when a trial occurred over whether evolution was okay to be taught in school. In Tennessee, the practice was outlawed, but when a teacher in Dayton Ohio was coerced into using a textbook that contained evolution, the debate became one of major national attention. John Scopes, a twenty-four year old math and science…

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner In William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” he builds up terror and suspense to the end where he then reveals that the protagonist, Emily, poisoned her lover and had been sleeping and cuddling his corpse for more than forty years. What Faulkner has illustrated here is called necrophilia, which is the erotic attraction to corpses. This here is an example of the gothic genre, which is a combination of horror and romance. In the story, the…