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Use Of Motif In Edgar Allen Poe's The Imp Of The Perverse

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In the story “The Imp of the Perverse,” by Edgar Allen Poe is about a man who murdered someone by using a deadly candle in a very poorly ventilated room and let it burn while they were sleeping. Poe uses the motif, “I”, to develop the theme, if you're going to do something big. Make sure you can take the consequences. According to paragraph 1 and 5, “I poisoned the candle next to his bed… I experienced all the pains of suffocation.” The narrator keeps repeating the word “I” because he is starting to realize what he has done. It’s starting to make him go crazy and insane because he cannot believe what he has done. It is starting to make him go crazy and insane. By the narrator doing this it clearly shows that he is not stable enough to take
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