The Role Of Darkness In Edgar Allan Poe's Literature

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Edgar Allan Poe showed the complete darkness of the human consciousness, and in his stories, he portrayed how darkness can affect a life. Poe’s supernatural stories display his characters with difficulties that they must escape from (Kennedy 118). Every story told by Poe is about the human figure and the purpose of the soul. Poe’s mindfulness towards the details around him made him seem to be compulsively masochistic (Carringer 18). He was able to put his feelings in any of his stories because he thrives from his own pain and destructiveness. “Poe is permanent and inescapable. His Gothic tales do not sustain being read aloud, but like his novel, “Arthur Pym, they dream universal nightmares” (Amper VII). Poe used the presentation of extremely