Part one of term paper
"" is a story about one man's struggle against death (3) and how this battle (4) affects his psyche. Edgar (5) Allan Poe, when writing “,”(6) included every macabre detail that life in the dungeon involved. The horror of Poe's dungeon is the isolation from all things which used to make life worth living. Isolation from all of one's life ...

Part two of term paper
... and they (11) intend nothing but the worst for their prisoner (Thompson 171(12)). A description of the inquisitors'(13) lips demonstrates the intense dehumanization of the captors through distinct words (14); “I saw them writhe with a deadly locution. I saw them fashion the syllables of my name; and I shuddered because no sound succeeded.” (Poe 1(15)) This last view of humanity until the narrator's release leaves him feeling hopeless. (Burdick 91(16)) The captors, his probable last view of ...