American Literature
Typical
of a gothic story gloomy, dark, murky. The feeling of intolerable loneliness. One such story is "The Man of the Crowd" the secret of a man who
seems to be strangely alienated from human fellowship, the narrator chases the man, still the man remains a mystery. The narrator's feverish in the
man's identity symbolises human desire for selfdiscovery. Poe adored the idea of the Doppelganger, uses this motif to stress the complexity of
human nature. Another Poe's favourite topic is the impossibility for the artist to escape from the practical world "William Wilson", something haunts
the narrator to chase him from country to country, he's been haunted by himself. The theme of Death fascinated Poe. He's interested in death with
all its horrors. "Berenice" a man digs out the body of his dead pride, pulls out her teeth
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