Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most famous writers in the 19th century, is famous for his gothic style. His works are characterized by the theme of death.

十九世纪美国杰出作家埃德加·爱伦·坡以其哥特式风格作品闻名，死亡主题是其作品的最大特色。

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This paper analyzes the theme of death in the aspects of detail description and symbolization, and reveals the Dubliners moral and spiritual paralysis and bitterness.

本文从细节描写和象征手法两个方面分析了《死者》中的死亡主题，并揭示了都柏林人道德、精神的麻痹状态和无力自拔的痛苦。

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And now in "The Hothouse", written in 1958 but not staged until 1980, Mr Pinter plays the coarsest character of them all, Roote, the corrupt head of an indeterminate institution where the inmates and the staff are exploited to the point of torture and death, a theme he was to develop in a sparer and more political way in his later "Mountain Language".

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In the final scene, where Scottie faces reality and determines at the risk of spiritual death to "stop being haunted, " the love theme and the illusions it represents are ripped into ugly scraps.

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With its snappy theme songs, soap-operatic continuities (Laci Peterson, runaway brides, the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith), and a cast of characters ranging from photogenic newsreaders to egomaniacal pundits, contemporary television journalism rivals, in its shallowness and sensationalism, the finest works of the late Aaron Spelling.

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