... house at her table to complete a new jigsaw puzzle. As she pieced the puzzle together, she realized to her astonishment that the image that was formed was her very own room, and the figure in the center of the puzzle, as she completed it, was herself. And with trembling hands she placed the last four pieces and stared in horror at the face of the demented madman at the window. The ... last thing that this old lady ever heard was the sound of breaking glass." -Neil Perry  The puzzle symbolizes life, the madman symbolizes passion, and the death of the woman is caused by letting her pas...

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... a particular form of the over-soul, which is a big part of transcendentalism. There were a variety of gothic elements and symbols in both stories. In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment-, the setting is Dr. Heidegger's dark, gloomy, dusty house with old cabinets and things everywhere. There is even a skeleton in a tall oaken closet. Out of all the old, weird things, he has a mirror that "was fabled that the spirits of all the doctor's deceased patients ... dwelt within its verge, and would stare him in the face whenever he looked thitherward- (503). He ... ...

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