Stanley Edgar Hyman

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” is one of the most fascinating stories among his collection of short stories. Taking readers into a murderer’s mind, Poe explores the darkest depths of the human psyche as the main character experiences bouts of random, intense murderous rage, paranoia, trickery and superstitious behavior, as well as remorse and powerful love for his beloved wife. Accordingly, the author’s work is not removed from the author himself: indeed, the story’s aspects of…

In 1809 a literary genius was born by the name of Edgar Allan Poe, impacting the world of literature using short stories, novels, and poetry that were all of a new style incorporating insanity, horror, and gruesome imagery beyond belief. In late 2004, a biography was developed by Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary Ruby, showing the true upbringing of Poe, the creative lifestyle, and the list of the rewards he received during his time as a writer. Napierkowski and Ruby went on to say, "His poems…

In Masque of the Red Death and Edgar Allan Poe’s life, a disease overruns the lives of many people. In Edgar Allan Poe’s life, a disease takes away the life of all the women he loves, and in his gothic short story a disease takes the life from every man and woman it sets its breath on. Edgar Allan Poe’s life directly affected the way he wrote Masque of the Red Death. The death of the women in Poe’s life and his health are a huge factor in why Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Masque of the Red Death.…

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer known for his ability to create stories that are as twisted as they are thrilling. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”, two short stories written by Poe are known to be distressing and quite engaging at the same time for anyone who reads them. The two stories share many similarities and differences but overall the symbols draw emphasis on the stories given that they convey similar topics but at the same time differentiate them. A similarity that becomes…

Madmen may not be helped. “A Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a story in which a madman is overcome by guilt after his insanity provokes him to kill a man. Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem, “The City in the Sea” illustrates an ancient city at the bottom of the sea overcome by the presence of death. In a “Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe uses the plot, characters, and mood to portray insanity, and fear; with a moral battle in a man and his murder. For “The City in The Sea” Poe uses the mysterious plot line…

Parallel Paranoia Paranoia is having an extreme, irrational distrust of others. These people struggle to form healthy, close relationships because they truly believe that others are always out to get them. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” written by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe kills an old, innocent man. The man lives with a vulture eye, obsessed over by Poe, until he is brutally murdered. Poe goes off the wall. David O. Russell directs a similar story, The Silver Linings Playbook. Pat is suffering from…

One’s recollection of past events has a drastic impact on their narration. Multiple factors may affect one’s recollection, and consequently the credibility of their narration. Edgar Allen Poe was a writer, innovator, essayist and literary critic. He is attributed as the developer of short stories due to his many famous publications. In Poe’s short stories, the narration is in the first person. While this adds an interesting perspective, one cannot always trust the narrator’s recollection. Poe…

dark romanticism period of several authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Joyce Carol Oates. In their various pieces they have a gothic theme, with many dreary aspects to their setting to intensify the meaning of their pieces and to show the gothic theme. Two of these pieces that are very similar, but also very different at the same time demonstrate a parallel theme, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ by Edgar Allan Poe and ‘Where is Here?’ by Joyce Carol Oates. ‘In The Fall of…

During the 19th century, Romantic texts flourished through American literature causing people to self-reflect and consider the more important matters in life. However, societal failings written by authors at the time still remain in modern America. In Edgar Allen Poe 's, Sonnet to Science, he stresses that if facts over intuition continues to flourish then we will lose our creative mind. He articulates this frustration when he declares, “Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who…

The story I chose to read and write my analysis on is Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” written in 1843. The setting of the story takes place in an old fashioned house, primarily in a bedroom, where two individuals reside. One of them is the unnamed protagonist; a self-proclaimed care taker. The other, an old man, is the antagonist who has a diseased eye. The care-taker of the old man characterizes itself not as a mad-man, but as a man whose disease “sharpened [his] senses”…