Billy Budd‚ by author Herman Melville has many unique characters‚ allusions‚ and symbolism to make reading such a story a challenging adventure. One of those unique characters being Captain ‘Starry’ Vere. In Billy Budd Melville portrays a very sui generis perspective of Vere‚ that of one who is a worthy leader‚ but is unfortunately trapped by the law of his homeland. Melville tells readers that Captain Vere was well liked both as a sailor and as an ordinary land walker. He was well known for showing
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Side of Poe Edgar Allan Poe is known for being a gothic writer. Growing up‚ he had a rough childhood due to everyone in his family dying from Tuberculosis. He uses his rough time to portray his feelings in his works. Poe uses the gothic elements bleak‚ remote settings and violent scenes in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Black Cat” to create a disturbing mood. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Black Cat‚” Poe uses bleak and remote settings to create a disturbing mood. Poe immediately
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OSCAR WILDE’S GOTHIC: THE PRESENCE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts with a Major in English in the College of Graduate Studies University of Idaho by Peter Stegner August 2007 Major Professor: Gary Williams‚ Ph.D. ii AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT THESIS This thesis of Peter Stegner‚ submitted for the degree of Master of Arts with a major in English and titled “Oscar
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EDGAR ALLEN POE BIOGRAPHY Edgar Poe was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ on January 19‚ 1809. Poe was the child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe‚ Along with an elder brother‚ William Henry Leonard Poe‚ and a younger sister‚ Rosalie Poe. Edgar’s father abandoned him and his family in 1810. Devastatingly his mother died a year later from consumption (pulmonary tuberculosis). With no one to care for Poe‚ he was then taken into the home of John Allan‚ the Allan’s
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literature came out of a mix of the upcoming of romanticism‚ the decline of the enlightenment‚ and most of all from early gothic traditions themselves. Neo-gothic interests greatly sparked the minds of many 18th century writers‚ Edgar Allen Poe being one of them. Poe is classified as an American Horror author of the romanticism era who wrote many short stories and poems of weird‚ gloomy‚ and haunting concepts. The ideas behind many of his stories relate to the minds of many people who have felt like
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American literary critic‚ poet‚ editor and writer Edgar Allan Poe. In his own writing‚ Doyle commented on Poe’s work‚ specifically mentioning his detective character Dupin in A Study In Scarlet‚ the first short story to feature Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes. In it‚ Dr. Watson‚ tries to complement Sherlock Holmes‚ comparing him to Poe’s detective from Murders in the Rue Morgue: "it is simple when you explain. You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe ’s Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist
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Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl both have different writing styles‚ but they also have some similarities. For instance both of the authors have a unique‚ dark way of writing stories. Both authors wrote some of their stories based on their childhood which in some cases was good and at other times was bad. The two authors both use similes when they write to make it more suspenseful for the reader and to explain the events in the story in a more detailed fashion. Poe and Dahl also use a great deal of
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"Billy Budd" by Herman Melville: Captain Vere In the novella "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville‚ Captain Vere is the " tragic hero". he is neither good nor evil‚ but rather a man whose concept of order‚ discipline‚ and legality forces him to obey the codes of an authority higher than himself even though he may be in personal disagreement. Captain Vere is sailor that is distinctive even in a time of renowned sailors. He has noble blood in him‚ but his advancement through the naval ranks
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Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Kimberley Prescott LIT/210 08/01/2012 Sherry Salant Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Popular literature is incomplete without the names of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both of these authors lived in the same time period‚ yet lived very opposite lives. In fact‚ Poe received notoriety for criticizing Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Poe‚ 1847) In his career‚ he wrote several critiques of Hawthorne’s work. On a personal level‚ Poe often disagreed
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Edgar Allan Poe  Edgar Allan Poe is a major American Poet of the Nineteenth Century. He is also known for his achievements in short fiction and criticism for American Literature. In Poe’s tales he uses setting to set the mood and to foreshadow certain things in his essays. In the two stories‚ The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado‚ setting is used in great detail to help set the mood and tone of the stories. The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Poe’s best-known and admired
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