1. Poe
The emotion of guilt easily, if not eventually, crashes through the seemingly unbreakable walls of insanity. ... This is easily recognizable to the reader as an eye with a cataract. ... Only a madman would bother to look at an old man sleep when it is his eye that torments him: "And I did this for seven long nights-every night just at midnight-but found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye" (1472). ... Any sane person knows that a dead heart does not beat: "I found that the noise was not within my ears"(...
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- Grade Level: High School