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…and Herman Melville are authors of Gothic Romanticism. All three authors' style has multiple levels of interpretation and is loaded with allegories, but each has a slightly different vision. Poe's "The Tale-Tell Heart", Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark" and Melville's…

…in the embrace of his brother, who then also died. Roderick and his sister¡¯s deaths are simultaneous, and soon after this takes place the physical house divides and collapses. Usher and house reflect God¡¯s mind as they collapse into Oneness. The Tell-Tale Heart…

…Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart What Should the Killer’s Punishment Be? In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator describes the brutal murder of his roommate, while constantly pleading his case of sanity. Through this, we…

…Obsession and Deviance Poe presents the narrators of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" as devious, obsessed characters. Both are overpowered by the need to consume the life of their victim. Though they use different strategies…

…                                   The Wife of Bath is an interesting character, both by the tale she tells and who she is. She tells her tale of a knight who had been given the quest for his life - to find what women desired…

…with the natural world, animals and even with the weather in creating the spine-jarring tales. His most popular stories include "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat". Poe was preoccupied with death, disfigurement, and the darker aspects…

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