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Within Poe’s works the reoccurring theme of the supernatural will occur time and time again, he tends to use this as a metaphor Silence: a fable. • Multiple levels of storytelling. • The Demon telling the man a story. • The Demon watching another man. • The man telling the story to the reader. • It is considerably ironic that both of these men will make the same mistakes; creating humorous situations for the demon. • The Man becomes alienated from society and moves to nature, a metaphor. • The man starts thinking of questions with no real answers, which terrifies him. • He realizes that death is the only true release. Death becomes something the people seek. • The reality becomes that nature will live on, while humanity perishes around …show more content…

And the lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom, and lay down at the feet of the Demon, and looked at him steadily in the face.” • The lynx will always have the last word; its silence will always trump the Demon's silence. The lynx is a metaphor for nature silencing man; As such the demon becomes a metaphor for man and man itself becomes supernatural through the demon. The fall of the house of Usher: • “The Fall of the House of Usher” tells the story of a sick man whose fears manifest themselves through his supernatural, sentient family estate. • The story covers both physical and mental illness, and the effect that such illnesses have on the people closest to those who are ill and the ways they can manifest as supernatural events. • You can interpret it as that much of the “madness” of the main character is causing the supernatural events; he’s not crazy his house is really haunted, and his sister really is no longer dead. Another interpretation is that the madness really is imaginary. • This story also shows a family so isolated from the rest of the world that they’ve developed their own supernatural barriers. • The House of Usher exists within its own reality, with its own

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