Conformism In Edgar Allan Poe
He use the figure of the antihero to create something that is the opposite of what is “normal”, something that is very far from the society expectations. He wants to shock and disturb, he wants to gives a rational explication of the irrational, and it is by creating very peculiar characters, and using them in his stories he accomplish his goals, express his felling, and remark his strong hate for a bourgeois society. He wants to show that the evil is confine a recondite part of all of us, and are the circumstances the trigger that liberates it. In the Edgar Allan Poe’s tales the presence of evil is not directly related to the immorality of his characters but instead it is the simply result of the combination of common sentiments, with bizarre …show more content…
Poe shows that hate and love are strongly related to each other, and he serves them, as they are simply two different aspects of the same powerful human emotion. In the stories the characters have a very good and precise opinion of themself they feel in control but when feelings of self-hatred grows in them, the character projects that rage onto a fictitious version of himself, and even though the stories are in first person, where is the main character who tell the story, the creation of this alter ego transform the main character in an external observer. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator states his love for an old man whom he will violently kill and he will chop him apart. The narrator in a desperate intent tries to give a rational explanation to his madness ” True! --Nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” exacerbating the difference between the figure of the old man, whom he loves “I loved the old man”, and the old man’s evil eye, which is the trigger of narrator’s rampage “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold”. The illusion of being able to keep a net separation between what he love and what he hates allows the narrator to give a rational explanation of the evil he posses, justify his actions as good for his purposes. This situation can be used as an extreme example of the universal idea of