Poe also writes introspectively, which lets the reader glimpse into the mind of the narrator or the main character of the story, exposing to us his fears, his hate, and his perversion. Many of the characters in Poe's stories seem to be insane. ... David Herbert Lawrence says that "to the characters in Poe's story, hate is as inordinate as love. The lust of hate is the inordinate desire to consume and unspeakably possess the soul of the hated one, just as the lust of live is the desire to possess or be possessed by the beloved, utterly."2 Poe's stories often have narrators tha...

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