In the story “The Premature Burial”, by Edgard Allen Poe, the main theme is about facing your fear. The man in the story struggles with a major fear of being buried alive. He suffers from a disorder called Catalepsy, which is a physical condition that has characteristics of a coma. The narrator of the story is the man who is suffering from this fear. His text supports the fact that he fears being buried alive. He goes into detail describing his fear, “the suffocating fumes from the damp earth—the clinging to the death garments—the rigid embrace of the narrow house—the blackness of the absolute Night—the silence like a sea that overwhelms—the unseen presence of the Conqueror Worm”. He continues to expand on his fear throughout the text. By
