Edgar Allan Poe Struggles

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Edgar Allan Poe had a very tough life, he faced many hardships. The hardships in his life made him a very sad, depressed person and he expresses that through his writings. He was born in 1809 and his father deserted the family right after his birth, a year later his mother died. All the woman in his life that were close to him died. Edgar Allan Poe later joined the army and started his writings. Edgar Allan Poe used himself or made himself similar to the narrator in his stories a lot of times. He expresses his feelings and reflects on his life through his writings, such as his short stories. The short stories that he really seems to express his emotions in are The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Tell-Tale Heart. The first short story I am going to write about is The Black Cat. The Black Cat is in the horror genre and has Gothic elements in it. The main themes in this short story are perversity, and alcohol abuse. A human being has a perverse, wicked side that can make yourself do evil deeds. The narrator says it was a inner demon that brought his downfall. “Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a …show more content…

The main theme of this story is the same as The Black Cat, perversity. A human being has a perverse, wicked side that can make yourself do evil deeds. The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" says in the second paragraph of the story that he committed a senseless crime, saying: "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire." (Page 3) That shows you human beings can do very bad things with no purpose or very little purpose. Edgar Allan Poe probably did some bad things that had very little purpose around the time he wrote this short

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