rope who
             he had been accused of echoing the European style of a gothic tale. Critics now
             say he was influenced by such writers as Brown, and Hawthorne.
             Poe is very cleverly portrayed in all his tales. It is said that he has only
             one repeating male character in his entire novel going through different
             situations in life, himself. Poe himself had created these stories to fit the
             situations he had believed that he had been through in his life, that is why all his
             tales involve some sort of death, madness or disease because this is the pain that
             he feel is equivalent to his life happenings(Hoban,pg.21) . The tricks in creating
             atmosphere he largely derived from traditional Gothic Tales. But the
             description of mental states and dark surroundings all relate to him personally at
             specific times of his life(Buranelli,pg.42) . His character is repeated throughout
             these scenarios as being melancholic, neurasthenic, hallucinated, mad and half
             mad protagonists , also known as the main character in all his plots. It is
             apparent in the tale of "Siope" with its gothic background and its inarguable
             irony and "Psyche Zenobia" with its strange synthesis and intensity that Poe has
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