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- 201: Lord of the Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm of Society
- ... takes on a very slantedly ambivalent tone; darkly pessimistic, only passingly redeeming in its sense of morality. In his decidedly Gothic ending in this interpretation of the book, reminiscent of Poe, Golding comments sourly even on ostensibly virtuous human faculties such as righteousness and practicality. He portrays even the protagonists with a humanly flawed skew; Piggy is weak and whining, Ralph ...
- 202: Wallace Stevens
- ... boy, Wallace was inquisitive, creative, brilliant, and solitary; and all of these qualities stayed with him as he grew older. He loved football and reading: his favorites were, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. All three of the Stevens' boys' graduated from Reading Boys' School and Wallace gave the commencement speech and received much praise for his poise and confidence while ...
- 203: A Friend Who Wants Revenge
- ... may he rest in peace. Fortunato and Montresor have numerous similarities. These two men can be seen as intimate friends. Both Fortunato and Montresor share the love of old wines. Poe says," in the matter of old wines he,' meaning Fortunato.' Was sincere. In this respect I,' meaning Montresor,' did not differ from him materially" (748). This affection of wine is ...
- 204: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
- ... poetry is that she seems too much shackled to the poets of the late 19th and early 20th century. In Caged Bird, she admits that she "enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henely," and that she "saved [her] young passion for Paul Lawernce Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. Du Bois . . ." (Angelou 11). To the ...
- 205: The Cask of Amontillado: Lyman
- ... Lyman In many great literary works, an inanimate object can be as important and sometimes more important than the characters to an author when making his point. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the cask of amontillado is as, if not more important than Fortunato and Montressor (the main characters) in the development of the story. Montressor uses ...
- 206: Washington Irving and His Works
- ... 3, 1783 in Tarrytown, New York. His father was a merchant and owned an import business. Irving had literary influences early in his life. He was friends with Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Charles Dickens. Washington Irving had no formal schooling. Instead, he taught himself by reading as many books as possible. Washington Irving had other interests than just writing ...
- 207: The Fall Of The House Of Usher
- The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" main characters parallel the house that they inhabit. The two siblings, Roderick and Madeline Usher, that occupy the Usher house have both ...
- 208: Resurrection (tale Of Two Citi
- ... this same part taken away by nobles. This 'part' can only be described as dignity. These poverty-stricken men and women needed to 'resurrect' their dignity with revenge. Edgar Allan Poe often described man's greatest fear as being buried alive. In A Tale of Two Cities, prisoners of the Bastille (such as Dr. Manette) and the poor Revolutionist can be ...
- 209: Story Of An Hour 2
- "Story of an Hour" When I read Kate Chopin's, "Story of an Hour" I am reminded of a Edgar Allan Poe horror poems. The narrator has a "divine transformation" yet it kills her. This puzzles me, so I will search for the true meaning of this strange story (marriage, as I ...
- 210: T.s Eliot Interpretation Of Wa
- ... used in surrealist, symbolist and fantasy genres. In this poem, the reader may remember the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland or Edgar A. Poe's short story "The Black Cat". In any case, what would normally be a very real landscape is darkened, bastardized and animated by Prufrock's descriptions. This un-real dark ...
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