When one thinks about gothic literature, one certain name comes to mind: Edgar Allan Poe. He is one of the strikingly phenomenal American authors that dared to write about gore and horror that most people suppress in our subconscious minds. We fear what we don't know and try to keep that hidden from others; but ... though it should be something that we can think of when we're awake. In our dream-like states, we can see everything in our suppressed subconscious because our dreams are vulnerable to what our minds want us to see. In our dreams we can see this vision of a perfect girl or anima ......

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... One will be the rational, logical thinker, represented by the consciousness and the other one will be a ghostly being, overtaken by the powers of the subconscious. Many critics consider Poe the founder of the so called doppelganger technique, in literature. What does this technique involve? It is basically a twin or a ... imp of the perverse. More than a regular story, the latter one, is a study of the unconscious mind, and in some critic's opinion is an early version of Freud's theory of the subconscious. The word "imp" means "tiny demon," and it refers to the impulses that exist in ev...

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... melding two worlds into one, brings the personal crises of the main character Richard Young to the fore of the story. Are these experiences hallucinatory, a subconscious escape from dissatisfaction with his own marital life? Or has he really travelled back in time? If he has indeed travelled back in time then these experiences ... match his subconscious and it is a true escape from the life he lives. More and more he grudges the hours spent away from these people of long ago ... deeply emotionally obsessed with the magnetic Isolda - He resents the time he must spend in the modern world. ...

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... of taking action whom they are upset. Writing in the perspective of psychological description Junfeng and Haiyuan said, "Psychological description is mining figures inside the subconscious and characterizing people's inner feelings and mental activity. It can make the character's image more distinct and accurate to reproduce. Psychological characterizations, as ... murder out of fear, anger and also alcoholism; which, according to the Freud is id. This desire is fulfilled by their ego which their conscious mind controls. In "The Tell-Tale Heart,"" "The Cask of Amontillados,"" and "The B...

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... October 7,1849. The writings of Edgar Allan Poe received much criticism. Perhaps no other American writer has been subjected to such critical appraisals. "The European mind has always been more hospitable to Poe than the American mind". Charles Baudelaire led the French in a discovery of Poe .Recently the French Structuarlists have resurrected Poe from many years of critical condescension by considering his ... . Some believe Poe only symbolizes that which takes place beneath the consciousness. In Edgar Allan Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado, the reader could very well identify with acts o...

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... his readers would not be able to handle and demented thoughts so he kept most of it to himself. He held back a lot. Though his work was lead by his subconscious fixation of death, "Poe did not follow his inspiration blindly-. Even in his most delusive stories he always held back. Poe knew that "Madness, moreover, is not incompatible with reason ... discipline and strategy. He used logical ideas to chain his thoughts together. Everything is very clear and coherent in his work even if it isn't quite as stable in his mind. It is all presented with a cause and effect. He wins over his audie...

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