edgar allan poe
Katie-Marie Garcia American Romantics Edgar Allan Poe wrote many gothic stories where the narrators have most apparently gone mad. "The Tell-Tale Heart" "MS. Found in a bottle" and "A Descent into the Maelstrom" are some of these stories. In all these stories, the narrator is driven completely mad by something insignificant. Poe makes this point very clear in these stories. Even Poe's poems are filled with madness. "The Raven" is a great example of this.In "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator is a caretaker for an old man. He is driven insane by the one pale eye that the old man has. He plans to and kills the old man one night and buries him under the floor. When the police arrive the narrator believes that the old man's heart is still beating and rips the floor up and confesses his crime. The eye of the old man was "a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones..."(p.557) and this was the narrator's only reason for planning and killing the old man. Throughout the entire story the narrator is trying to convince the audience that he is in fact not mad, which makes him see even more insane. "Now at this point you fancy me mad. Mad
In any case the narrator is driven mad. Yet it is also plausible that in his grief stricken state that he dreams this terrible encounter believing that he and his loved one will never be together again. The attempt is made to show the reader that in all his tragedies, the narrator has gone mad. Poe is one of the few writers you could read over and over again and not get bored. All of the crew but him and an old swede were washed overboard. These stories show the thin line that Poe has between the natural and supernatural. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Poe, Edgar Allan. The raven sits above his door and answers everyone of the narrator's grief stricken questions with the same answer "Nevermore". When the rapping begins it awakens the narrator he is in the state of "Nearly napping" (Poe p. Apparently the men on the ship don't see him, which is absurd.
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