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Edgar Allan Poe, the author of the short story, “The Purloined Letter,” is hailed as the master-craftsman of what is now known as the modern detective genre. It is one of his three fascinating detective stories, the other two being, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget.” The fictional C….

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ” – Dr. Maya Angelou. This inspiring poet, novelist, historian, educator, actress, filmmaker, producer, memoirist, dramatist, and civil rights activist has had a superior impact…

The Birthmark“Murdering a wife then getting away with it” is the way Judith Fetterley described the story of Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark’. It revolves around the obsession of the main character, Aylmer, to remove his wife’s ‘birthmark’. He considered the ‘birthmark’ to be a blemish to his wife’s perfection. Hawthorne argued that such obsession posed the…

The book To Kill A Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, takes readers on a journey though Scout Finch’s childhood. In the book, Scout, who lives in a racist town in Southern Alabama with her father Atticus and brother jem, must learn to deal witht the unjust jerdict of a black man accused of rape, a…

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was written as a general statement against all wars. The novel canbe divided into several distinct stories all combined to convey one theme. The major theme focuses around thecentral character of Billy Pilgrim before, during, and after the war. Vonnegut himself plays a major role in thenovel as narrator…

Layton’s poem, “Rhine Boat Trip,” and Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death,” are vivid, graphic depictions of suffering coupled with avoidance of guilt and remedy.  Layton’s poem has few words, but powerful, bleak images and messages.  The imagery of the boat trip along the Rhine River, which meanders through Germany, is a…

In one of Edgar Allen Poe’s best-known tales of horror, “The Cask of Amontillado,” he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing. Through the use of foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism, Poe presents the compelling drama of two men. One who will stop at nothing to get the revenge that he deems himself and…

In both Shakespeare’s Othello. and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. they pertain to racism and green-eyed monster. Racism goes about when person believes that they’re the high quality of a peculiar race. It’s handling people otherwise whether it’s positively or negatively merely based on the colour of their tegument. As for green-eyed monster. it’s more like…

His name was Stephen Edwin King. After his parents separation as a toddler, Stephen and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen, David, and their mother lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which was where Stephen’s father’s side of the family lived. They then moved to Stratford, Connecticut, that was where Stephen King…

“To Build a Fire” Essay Humanity is just a part Of nature; if it ceased to exist everything would go on as if it never did exist. Nature’s uncaring for humanity is displayed in Jack Loon’s “To Build a Fire” with the man and nature not doing anything to help him survive. This is shown…