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…Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” consists of a monologue in which the murderer of an old man protests his insanity rather than his guilt: ”You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen…

…man than during that the whole week before I killed him. And every night-----About midnight----I turned the latch of his door and opened it---Oh so gently. And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed…

…Beloved: A Darkness in 124 What is the significance of the number 124? Is the number 124 merely a place or can it actually be characterized as something more important in this novel? In my opinion 124 is more significant than a simple address…

…Dark Side of Fairytales 'Once upon a time, there lived a pretty princess...' Does this sound familiar? This is how a fairytale usually starts. Fairytales are classified as an educational reading for little children. However, some fairytales consist…

…The Dark Side of Prozac Cutting, purging, starving, and drug abuse are all self-destructive behaviors faced by Americans today. Americans like to think that the ingestion of a simple pill will help dissolve their problems. Society tends to ignore…

…Gilgamesh: Out of the Dark and into the Light Without light, we wouldn’t know dark. Without cold, we couldn’t know hot. These “systematic dualisms of associated polarities” (Honderich 734), or binary oppositions, are used to illustrate meaning…

…Tell-Tale Heart “TRUE!--nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all…

…The Left Hand of Normality In Ursula Le Guin’s novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, Genly Ai, an agent from the Eukemen, is sent to the planet Winter, one of the non-federated planets in the universe. His mission is to see if he can persuade the people…

…--shame. She is ashamed to walk into the store because her inability to buy makes her unworthy. Bambara uses this to expose the dark underbelly of the one sided American Dream. Sylvia leaves the store filled with conflicting emotions: shock, shame…

…, the drug will tear apart almost any family that it encounters. A long dark path to addiction- Heroin is a drug that can reach anyone. From a middle school honor roll student, to a college grad that made the dean’s list, to a prostitute on the streets of Los…