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Human Obsession With Death In Edgar Allan Poe's Literature

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Edgar Allan Poe’s literature can be related to many aspects of modern human nature even though it was written over a hundred and fifty years ago. The three stories analyzed can be related to the human obsession with death. Death fascinates many humans in the fact that it can happen in so many ways. Poe’s visual descriptions of death add a different twist to your average murder, which can be very appealing to a reader.
Edgar’s work can also be related to the television show Dexter. Dexter has a code of conduct called his “Dark Passenger” which allows him to kill others and not feel any remorse. In Poe’s literature, the law did not guide the characters, as they killed others as they wished. In Dexter’s case, he worked for the law, but even that …show more content…

The short stories were certainly interesting to me because I always kept one metaphysical question in mind while reading: “What does it all mean?” This follows the theory of epistemology, the metaphysical branch that deals with knowledge and how do we know what we know; it is investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. I believe that Poe wrote with metaphysics in mind because some of the questions his literature discussed were almost too much for my mind handle; but that is the beauty of it. Poe’s literature is what you make of it, and it could be easy to just skim over due to the advanced vocabulary, but you truly do not get the actual content and lessons out of the stories until you read them multiple times. Each story we read by Poe was extremely good but overall, my favorite story out of the three would have to be Hop-Frog. This decision was simply made because I liked the way Hop-Frog brutally and effectively got revenge on the King and his ministers for treating him and Trippetta wrongly. It’s a classic story of revenge, which I believe will never get old. I truly do believe that Edgar Allan Poe’s work is always going to be relevant because of the uniqueness of his writing style that he discusses topics that no other authors would ever come close to writing about. To me, he is not just an author; he is the

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