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The Grotto And Walter De La Poer's The Rats In The Walls

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Throughout the poem “The Rats in the Walls” it is seen as Mr. de la Poer’s personality deteriorates from a civilized businessman, back to his dark ancestral heritage of cannibalism. This is subjectively due to the grotto which lies beneath the Priory. The grotto signifies the ancient evil that was shut away from humanity, an underground hell that has escaped, and in it, it reveals de la Poer’s ancient animalistic ancestry and the fact that it is impossible to escape your heritage. The grotto’s main function was to keep human evils hidden away from the rest of the world, but is unfortunately revealed during the pursuit of forbidden knowledge. The grotto is an area where many unspeakable horrors took place, and Walter de la Poer upon discovering this, had tried to cover up these evil things and afterwards, he had fled to a new land to start a new life. Unfortunately Mr. de la Poer, in his pursuit of knowledge, had neglected all of the warning signs that were around him. If he would have taken them into account he may have avoided tragedy. …show more content…

It is possible for many evil things to have originated here. We know this due to the ancient architecture and how the staircase leading down had seemed to have been carved from the bottom up. This could be the first instance of the evil which escaped into the civilized world. Then later again when Mr. de la Poer moves into the Exham Priory, the evil that had escaped begins to change him. He begins to hear rats scurrying and slithering throughout the walls. This is something that no other person is able to

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