... , this paper examines the psychological themes, motifs and symbols available in the story. The whole thing happening in the story will be presented as a dream analysis of the narrator. In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for ... Whether in a displaced, condensed and disguised manner or so vivid and clear like this, the narrator imagining himself as the painter of one of those "spirited modern paintings "(293). About the psychoanalysis of the wounded narrator in "The Oval Portrait", ...

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