... for the brutal murder of his wife. At that point, the rest of the story is told in flashback, as the narrator pens “...the most wild, yet homely narrative...whose events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed him.” The story, which is whole text, has many adaptations. For example, Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in1941 starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone. Both films claimed to have been "suggested by" Poe's story, but they don’t resemble to the story. The middle segment of director Roger Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror combines the story of “The Black Cat” with that of another Poe tale, “The Cask of Amontillado”. This version stars Peter Lorre as the main character (given the name Montresor Herringbone) and Vincent Price as Fortunato Luchresi. Writer/director Lucio Fulci's 1981 film The Black Cat is loosely based on Poe's tale. The 1990 film Two Evil Eyes presents two Poe tales, “The Facts in the Case of M....
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... 1-4-12 What do readers think of the word “detective”? Do they say crime, clues, evidence, etc… or do they say Sherlock Holmes? Most readers think he is the most intelligent, observant, and best introverted genius. How about Dupin? It is a fact that Dupin was the first detective. Dupin was originated by Edgar Allen Poe 50 years before Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Dupin might have been cloned or was he just borrowed? Who is the real god of intelligence? Don’t always refer to Sherlock Holmes as the detective that has a green deerstalker hat, trench coat, and pipe. To begin with, Poe and Doyle made Dupin and Sherlock have a sky scraping intelligence level. On (p.11) “ The Cask of Amontillado” he was skillful in Italian vintages. On (p.14) he said “It hang like moss upon vaults. We are below the river’s bed. Sherlock, readers can easily and vividly read his descriptive writing. An example of could be in the of “The Crooked Man (p.189), “ He apparently rushed across the lawn, for his toe marks were much deeper than his heels,” Sherlock intelligently muttered. (p.189) “Therefore a third person could have entered the room. That third person could have only come in through the window.” Poe and Doyle really made these characters have a towering intelligence. Following that trait about them they are extremely observant readers can obviously tell that they are, if some readers can’t see that, that’s kind...
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...The Depravity of John Claggart Depravity is the general badness of character, wickedness of the mind and heart, and also has an absence of religious principles. A depraved individual is one who will do corrupt acts and practices to the good that surrounds them. John Claggart is a character in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, which is consumed with depravity. He is the evil of the story. The following paragraphs will present Claggart’s depravity. The evil nature of Claggart is depicted in the way he looks. The following paragraph is a detailed description of John Claggart the master-at-arms: “Claggart was a man about five-and-thirty, …a vague field for unfavorable surmise” (Melville 2445-2446). He is a handsome man just as Billy is, but his chin has a strangeness about it that Melville uses images of Tecumseh, and Oates to reference it to. Melville’s comparison of Claggart to these two men, who have questionable backgrounds, puts a negative shadow on Claggart’s nature, to separate the evil “handsome” sailor from the good “handsome” sailor. The skin color of Claggart is described as almost without color; the narrator states that he appears to have “something defective or abnormal” (Melville 2445) in his blood. This could be a way of presenting Claggart’s depravity by showing that he has so much evil inside him that it has consumed him and is now without skin color. Billy does not know evil so he appears tanned and healthy looking. Claggart tries to appear...
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...John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. He and Frances seemed to form a bond, but he never quite meshed with John. Preferring poetry over profits, Poe reportedly wrote poems on the back of some of Allan's business papers. Money was also an issue between Poe and John Allan. When Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826, he didn't receive enough funds from Allan to cover all his costs. Poe turned to gambling to cover the difference, but ended up in debt. He returned home only to face another personal setback—his neighbor and fiancée Elmira Royster had become engaged to someone else. Heartbroken and frustrated, Poe left the Allans. Career Beginnings At first, Poe seemed to be harboring twin aspirations. Poe published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, and he had joined the army around this time. Poe wanted to go to West...
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...cover next page > title author publisher isbn10 | asin print isbn13 ebook isbn13 language subject publication date lcc ddc subject : : : : : : : : : : : cover next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i 1100 Words You Need to Know Fourth Edition Murray Bromberg Principal Emeritus Andrew Jackson High School, Queens, New York Melvin Gordon Reading Specialist New York City Schools . . . Invest fifteen minutes a day for forty-six weeks in order to master 920 new words and almost 200 useful idioms < previous page page_i next page > < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii © Copyright 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Prior edition © Copyright 1993, 1987, 1971 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright owner. All inquiries should be addressed to: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. 250 Wireless Boulevard Hauppauge, NY 11788 http://www.barronseduc.com Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 00-030344 International Standard Book Number 0-7641-1365-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bromberg, Murray. 1100 words you need to know / Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7641-1365-8 1. Vocabulary. I. Title: Eleven hundred words you need...
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