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A 12 page paper which critically examines the theme of good and evil in such Poe short stories as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Ligeia,” “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” as well as in the poem, “The Raven.” Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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withstood the test of time, unlike any other nineteenth-century author. His life was frequently marred by tragedy, with the desertion of his father, the deaths of his mother, his
beloved Aunt Fanny and the wasting away and eventual death of his wife Virginia left him with an ever-increasing number of moral questions. Why were all of these catastrophes
happening to him? Was he being punished by God for some type of evil tendencies that lurked within the darkest recesses of his soul? Moral philosophy is essentially
the consideration of good and evil, and the prevailing themes of Poes short stories and his most famous poem, "The Raven," considered how goodness, whether it be represented as a
dream or an ideal, is always somehow tainted by the forces of evil. Often, in Poes works, goodness is presented as something of perfection, and primarily takes a feminine
form. It is also usually portrayed as being quite fragile, and vulnerable to external threats. Most of Poes protagonists desire to close themselves off from the rest of
the world, often retreating into gloomy houses, with only remnants of a distant past for company and security (Outline of American Literature - Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860:
Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular as evil, for it was disturbing the balance between man and nature. For him, human nature
was, as Poe aficionado and critic Martha Womack observed, "a delicate balance of light and dark or good and evil" (Edgar Allan Poes "The Tell-Tale Heart"). In Poes works,
whenever this balance shifts for some reason, that is when the dark side of the characters nature not only reveals itself, but threatens to control anything that is good or
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