Literary period (The English Renaissance/The Elizabethan Period 1485 1625)
August 3, 2020
understanding systems
August 3, 2020

Edgar Allan Poe

Allan Poe stories covered (The Gold-Bug, The Spectacles, The Oblong Box, Thou Art the Man, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether). This essay must make a formal claim on the structure of the text and be backed up with evidence from the texts themselves or from secondary sources (not required). Specifically the way Poe makes use of the narrator (unnamed, naive, etc.) and the way it creates suspense for the reader as well as helping develop a mystery in the story(ies).