LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Emily Bronte
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William Shakespeare
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Jane Eyre
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Tell-Tale Heart, short Gothic horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in The Pioneer in 1843.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tell-Tale Heart, short Gothic horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in The Pioneer in 1843. Poe’s tale of murder and terror, told by a nameless homicidal madman, influenced later stream-of-consciousness fiction and helped secure the author’s reputation as master of the macabre.
Detailed explanation-3: -The chief inspiration was a description by Daniel Webster of a real crime committed in Massachusetts, when John Francis Knapp employed Richard Crowninshield, Jr., of Danvers, to rob and kill Joseph White of Salem on the night of April 6, 1830.
Detailed explanation-4: -Guilt: “The Tell-Tale Heart” is conventionally read as a moralizing story about guilt and innocence. Critics have interpreted the sound of the beating heart as the narrator’s guilty conscious reminding him of his deed.
Detailed explanation-5: -“The Tell-Tale Heart”-1874-Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol.