Question

Part A: In a well-developed paragraph analyze Poe’s theme in “The Premature Burial.” Your paragraph should state the theme in one sentence. What specific story elements (plot, setting, characters, or conflict) are essential in developing the theme? Be sure you use specifics from the text that you noted in your reading journal in writing your response.

Answer 1

Part B: In a well-developed paragraph compare Poe’s theme in “The Premature Burial,” to something you’ve experienced, observed, or read about. Be sure to use specifics noted in your reading journal and in your response.

Answer 2

http://learn.flvs.net/webdav/educator_englishII_v14/module03/pop/03_05_04/03_05_04_popa.htm

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

The Premature Burial is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe where he explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The narrator past fear of death lead him to become cataleptic and made his fear further increase. Poe creates this story's theme by re creating events that has happened in the past to people who actually got buried alive.

Answer 6

ins what part ur stuck

Answer 7

Part A like i dont know how plot, setting, characters, and conflict are essential in developing the theme?

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Answer 10

After offering some examples of events that are interesting because they are true, such as the Lisbon Earthquake and the London Plague, the narrator adds that false accounts that attempt to imitate such horrors are abominable. He observes that his examples are fascinating because of the extent of the damage but explains that individual stories of suffering are often far more intense while thanking God that large groups never suffer as much as some individuals have. He states that being buried alive is one example of intense suffering that sometimes occurs when a person temporarily loses his vital signs, and he asks where the soul goes during that moment of near-death.

He then provides examples of people who have been buried alive, including a Congressman's wife, who appeared to die and was placed in the family vault for three years before they again opened the vault to realize belatedly that the wife must have revived after her funeral and managed to escape her coffin. She apparently tried to call for help by banging on the door of the vault, but her burial shroud caught on some ironwork, and she consequently died on that spot. The narrator also tells of the wealthy Victorine Lafourcade who was wooed by the poor Parisian journalist Julien Bossuet. She rejected him in favor of Monsieur Renelle, who treated her badly and caused her to die, at which point she was buried. The lover visited her grave and realized that she had actually been buried alive, and he revived her, after which they fled to America. When they returned twenty years later, Renelle tried to claim her, but a tribunal decided that the husband's authority no longer existed.

Answer 11

http://www.gradesaver.com/poes-short-stories/study-guide/summary-the-premature-burial

Answer 12

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Answer 13

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Answer 14

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