Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe is known as the writer of ghost stories. And while it's certainly true that many of his tales have the requisite elements of ghost stories - ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night - they are much more than simply attempt to scare the reader silly. They are also - and this too of course is the reason that they are so effectively scary - profoundly intelligent investigations into the human psyche (Bate, 1997, p. 28). This paper examines the personal and historical context of Poe's work.We see examples of Poe's ability to understand and explore human nature in his three short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) "The Tale-Tell Heart" and "The Black Cat" (1845) in all three of which a character is defined by his reaction to being shut off from the rest of humanity in either a literal or metaphorical way. This same motif arises in his most famous poem, "The Raven" (1845) Poe's stories - and this includes not simply these three examined here but other stories of his such as "The Fall of the House of Usher" - are all tales of enforced solitude, of the way in which the greatest tragedies that befall us as
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