A Murderous Masterpiece In The Dark Eye By Edgar Allen Poe
A Murderous Masterpiece
Black and white, this is what most of us see when it comes to deciphering between, right and wrong, good and bad, or honor and shame. Now what if, everything of this world, isn’t so clearly black and white? To some, could telling be okay? From a different perspective, could theft be acceptable? Or could a murderous act be within the realms of justification?
A short story “The Dark Eye” by Edgar Allen Poe is a unique, disturbing, and dark story. This story describes a young man who commits murder. He murders an old man who he has a close relationship with, simply because there was something about this old mans eye. He explains this eye, as if the eye of a vulture, haunted and paranoid by it day and night. Throughout this …show more content…
But you should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with caution- with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!” Right here he is trying to show the reader that madmen would have just taken a life in whatever way or form, not thinking about evidence, or even caring if they got caught. But he carefully plotted how he would do it, so that there would be no suspicion, sign, or evidence of a murder. We see some signs of obsessive compulsion here, even in the fact that he continuously is trying to convince the reader of him not being a …show more content…
“And this I did for seven long nights – every night just at midnight- but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work.” Here we see the repeated action of checking on something and we see precise obsessive scheduling. He went to check on him every night, and every night he would go exactly at the same time. We also see here that the young man separated the connection the eye has to the old man; in his mind he was killing the eye, and not the soul of the old man.
Toward the end of this story, this young man kills the old man, feeling no shame. Later, the cops come to look, due to a complaint of noise from the neighbor, at first he seems as if by killing this man that he no longer has the obsession over this eye. But, after the man is dead he slowly starts hearing the beating of this man’s heart in his head getting louder and louder, meaning this old man’s eye continued to haunt him. This is part of obsessive compulsive disorder, once your mind starts obsessing over one thing, it doesn’t leave; the obsession only worsens over
Black and white, this is what most of us see when it comes to deciphering between, right and wrong, good and bad, or honor and shame. Now what if, everything of this world, isn’t so clearly black and white? To some, could telling be okay? From a different perspective, could theft be acceptable? Or could a murderous act be within the realms of justification?
A short story “The Dark Eye” by Edgar Allen Poe is a unique, disturbing, and dark story. This story describes a young man who commits murder. He murders an old man who he has a close relationship with, simply because there was something about this old mans eye. He explains this eye, as if the eye of a vulture, haunted and paranoid by it day and night. Throughout this …show more content…
But you should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with caution- with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!” Right here he is trying to show the reader that madmen would have just taken a life in whatever way or form, not thinking about evidence, or even caring if they got caught. But he carefully plotted how he would do it, so that there would be no suspicion, sign, or evidence of a murder. We see some signs of obsessive compulsion here, even in the fact that he continuously is trying to convince the reader of him not being a …show more content…
“And this I did for seven long nights – every night just at midnight- but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work.” Here we see the repeated action of checking on something and we see precise obsessive scheduling. He went to check on him every night, and every night he would go exactly at the same time. We also see here that the young man separated the connection the eye has to the old man; in his mind he was killing the eye, and not the soul of the old man.
Toward the end of this story, this young man kills the old man, feeling no shame. Later, the cops come to look, due to a complaint of noise from the neighbor, at first he seems as if by killing this man that he no longer has the obsession over this eye. But, after the man is dead he slowly starts hearing the beating of this man’s heart in his head getting louder and louder, meaning this old man’s eye continued to haunt him. This is part of obsessive compulsive disorder, once your mind starts obsessing over one thing, it doesn’t leave; the obsession only worsens over