The Tale of the Ragged Mountains
“A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” is not like your regular Edgar Allen Poe story. Instead of a dark, mysterious, horror “The Tale of the Ragged Mountains” turns out be a seemingly regular story. Do not get me wrong there is still of course death, but it is not in some dark twisted way. Edgar Allen Poe uses an old man, a doctor, and the narrator to create a story that keeps the reader on their toes and guessing till the end. The most mysterious point Poe made in “The Tale of the Ragged Mountains” would be whether or not the old man in the story died from his “dream”, or he just died from the simple malpractice of a doctor. Here is the explanation of the old man’s death, “"Mr. B., for some years past, has been …show more content…
Now the mysterious part of the story is how on the next day, almost like the future of the story, the old man dies by a poisonous leech venom that was applied to the temple area. It is a kind of mysterious aspect to the story considering that it resembles the death of the office; that being venom somehow injected into the head later causing death. This quote from Daniel Philippon explains how the old man's dream so closely resembles the officer's death, “"The riots, the combats, the massacre, were the actual events of the insurrection of Cheyte Sing, which took place in 1780," Templeton says, "when Hastings was put in imminent peril of his life" (949). Moreover, says Templeton, Bedloe's experience not only paralleled the shooting death of a fellow British officer named Oldeb, but Bedloe's "miraculous similarity" in appearance to Oldeb was what first attracted the doctor to his patient many years ago” (Philippon, 1). After poe kills these characters he makes a point that will open your eyes causing you to realize that the officer's name spelt backwards is exactly the same as the old man's spelt forward without an e. Which will keep you wondering if the old man was destined to face the odds and go
“A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” is not like your regular Edgar Allen Poe story. Instead of a dark, mysterious, horror “The Tale of the Ragged Mountains” turns out be a seemingly regular story. Do not get me wrong there is still of course death, but it is not in some dark twisted way. Edgar Allen Poe uses an old man, a doctor, and the narrator to create a story that keeps the reader on their toes and guessing till the end. The most mysterious point Poe made in “The Tale of the Ragged Mountains” would be whether or not the old man in the story died from his “dream”, or he just died from the simple malpractice of a doctor. Here is the explanation of the old man’s death, “"Mr. B., for some years past, has been …show more content…
Now the mysterious part of the story is how on the next day, almost like the future of the story, the old man dies by a poisonous leech venom that was applied to the temple area. It is a kind of mysterious aspect to the story considering that it resembles the death of the office; that being venom somehow injected into the head later causing death. This quote from Daniel Philippon explains how the old man's dream so closely resembles the officer's death, “"The riots, the combats, the massacre, were the actual events of the insurrection of Cheyte Sing, which took place in 1780," Templeton says, "when Hastings was put in imminent peril of his life" (949). Moreover, says Templeton, Bedloe's experience not only paralleled the shooting death of a fellow British officer named Oldeb, but Bedloe's "miraculous similarity" in appearance to Oldeb was what first attracted the doctor to his patient many years ago” (Philippon, 1). After poe kills these characters he makes a point that will open your eyes causing you to realize that the officer's name spelt backwards is exactly the same as the old man's spelt forward without an e. Which will keep you wondering if the old man was destined to face the odds and go