Essays on Edgar's Stories
• The Pit and the Pendulum
The nearness of death heightens
our sense of the other world. Constrained and taken by
force, we are driven down the confining, restrictive tunnel
that leads to the new world. If we could, as the Scripture
mockingly invites us, "enter the womb and be born
again,"... (more)
• The Gold-Bug
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug" emphasizes the chasm between our perceptions and reality. Poe's ghoulish tone is not merely horror for the "gross out", as Stephen King calls it. The gothic elements in Poe serve the higher purpose of transforming our consciousness...(more)• The House of Usher
This story traces the consequences of fusion of persons in the diminishment of personhood...(more)back to poe section comments
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