Essays on Edgar Allan Poe

 “The Oval Portrait” is one of the shortest stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Not all texts are suitable for application of all critical theories. Applying the right theories to a text is a very important choice. Deconstructive criticism is one of those approaches which…

Dark Romanticism is a subgenre in Romanticism, especially American Romanticism. This movement was formed in opposition to Transcendentalism and it was a reaction to its ideas. Dark Romanticism concentrates on the dark side of human psyche. Presents people as sinful and self-destructive individuals. Dark Romantics’…

Edgar allan poe had a rough life that ended too soon. His parents died at a young age, he fought with his foster parents, and his brother and foster mother died of tuberculosis. Poe’s work reflected his life in that it always ended in tragedy….

Trust is important because it’s the basis around which all human relationships revolve. Without trust, there can be no relationship. There are different types of trust for instance when someone is there for you like, your friend or your sister you usually naturally trust them….

Both Edgar Allan Poe and Toni Morrison explore the psychologically fracturing nature of trauma, by portraying hauntings as an intrusive return of the past. The complex mother-daughter relationship in Beloved amplifies the fracturing effect of slavery and Sethe’s and Denver’s personal psychological damage represents the…

Edgar Allan Poe is utterly stunning. Poe uses figurative language to entrance you into the story and make you feel like you are the madman. He also uses the first person point of view to convey the narrator’s emotional journey with the reader.You would never…

The narrator in Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe has some sort of mental illness that causes him to become very paranoid, psychopath behavior and have a tendency to become very obsessive about something that interests him or drive him insane. In this case…

Edgar Allen Poe was one of the greatest american authors who had ever lived. Living during the romantic era of art he would write mostly short stories and poetry. With a reimagined gothic twist to his style of writing, he would tackle major themes such…

In the story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe there is an intense use of symbolism that is dark, twisted and has some mystery to it. The story is written in first person, from the perspective of Montresor who is seeking revenge against…

In today’s society, Edgar Allan Poe’s works in relation to gothic elements has influenced American literature and modern education all around. Edgar Allan Poe himself started this gothic style of writing in the horror genre that brought about elements including macabre, suspense and fear, as…

 Edgar Allen Poe was an author, editor and literary critic, who shaped the literary world within western culture. He pioneered the beginning of science fiction, detective stories and various other genres of literature. Along with this, Poe compiled many short stories some of his most…

In his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe throws the reader right into the mind of the unknown narrator’s grim endeavor. The speaker in the story tries to convince the reader that he is sane, and that no insane person would be able…

January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts a very influential and powerful writer, Edgar Allen Poe was born in the so-called romantic era. During this time Robert Fulton patents the steamboat changing transportation around the world. James Madison is President of the United States of America…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe’s Tell Tale Heart present minds in distress, the state of severe anxiety or strain, which is distinguished through the state of the narrators’s appearance when committing murder and creating a monster; both by choice, however denying the reality…

 Writer Stephen King once said ‘Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.’ These words perfectly describe The narrator from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story ‘a tell-tale heart’. The Narrator is presented as mentally and physically ill, Poe…

Throughout the 19th century, many American literary works began to flourish. Some of the prominent writers that influenced these texts include Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each of these authors seemed to have a passion in creating captivating short stories. Pieces such…

On the nineteenth day of January during the year 1809, the literary world received a gift from the city of Boston in the form of Edgar Allen Poe. His family life was an interesting scene, as his father abandoned his family very early in Edgar’s…

The book tells the story of a man who realizes that his mental state is deteriorating and accepts that he needs to do something before his life is too late. The story revolves around the sense of guilt that surrounds a murderer who commits a…

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous poet who is best known for his darker form of writing. It is amazing how many stories and poems he wrote during his short life. “The most prominent features of Poe’s poetry are a pervasive tone of melancholy, a…

In the work of the novelist Edgar Allan Poe, sensory experiences of heroes play a very important role. In many of the works of the American writer, we find numerous references to visual and auditory sensations. Stories in which Poe used elements are particularly interesting…

Edgar Allen Poe indicates how a man’s inward unsettling influence and fear can make him insane through illustrative tongue, astounding characters and an amazing plot. As it’s for the most part the circumstance with first individual records, there are various settings to the story. The…