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A 6 page paper which examines how fear motivates the characters in Poe’s poem, “The Raven” and in short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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up more than a few spines. Poe was able to conjure fear in his readers and convey it in characterizations and actions better than anyone before or since probably
because he was no stranger to its effects himself. Poe feared everything including, perhaps his own shadow. He feared, among other things, losing those he loved because he
had experienced many personal losses in his life, including those of his parents and his beloved wife, Virginia; he feared illness because he saw its ravages on Virginia. It
was out of fear that Poe sought solace in alcohol, which provided him little comfort and, if anything, intensified his anxieties through nightmares and hallucinations. But instead of becoming
another victim of fear, Edgar Allan Poe shrewdly used it to his creative advantage. It motivated him to compose some of American literatures most memorable poems and short stories,
including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Black Cat," and "The Tell-Tale Heart." These stories are particularly compelling and worthy of analysis because of the
ways in which fear motivates the characters in each tale. "The Raven," Poes most famous (or perhaps infamous) poem is about a grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of
his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe had after Virginias death. When he first sees a large black bird, there is more confusion than
fear because there was a chance it was only a dream or drunken hallucination (Unrue 112). As critic Darleen Harbour Unrue observed in her poetic analysis, "The first seven
stanzas of the poem build the suspense and establish the atmosphere" (112). The readers pulses quicken with the narrators revelation, "The silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple
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