Part one of term paper
Edgar Allen Poe was a great author. He wrote many great short stories and literary works. In his writings, he used a variety of literary elements. It is key in a great author to use these elements in the way he did. Edgar also had a very interesting and troubled life. In comparing Edgar Allen Poe, one would examine his works such as the ...

Part two of term paper
... to have hidden meanings and appeared autobiographical. “In his Gothic fiction, Poe handles the morbid and frightening subjects with which his reputation is so closely associated – death, madness, disease, the dissolution of personality, the wasting away of fragile heroines. Sometimes the incidents recounted are realistic: …‘The Masque of the Red Death’ is an allegory in which Death is one of the dramatis personae.” ‘In The Fall of the House of Usher,’ the tragedy is so far from ...