Here Poe creates, to the reader, a feel contradiction and confusion since those are two conflicting ideas. This method is used to try and get the audience to be more involved within the story with attempting to understand where the main character is coming from. Nevertheless, Poe does his best to portray the character as being cunning, yet mad to get the audience to attempt to solve why the main character killed the old man before he goes on to state why. Before he goes on he states about how cautious he is before the ray of light hits the old man’s eye. The literary technique that Poe uses to demonstrate this, is epizeuxis “cautiously—oh, so cautiously— cautiously…” (Poe 4). Here he emphasizes how cautious the main character is to give the audience the illusion that he did not kill the old man out of cold blood, but with caution and reason. Subsequently, the main character makes it clear why he wants to kill the man, because of his glass eye, he makes reference to the “Evil Eye” which goes with old sayings and beliefs of how the evil eye bestows misfortune, and illness upon whomever it is place upon, sometimes even considered a curse. Poe uses this to imply that this is the reason why the main character kills the old man. Towards the middle of the
Here Poe creates, to the reader, a feel contradiction and confusion since those are two conflicting ideas. This method is used to try and get the audience to be more involved within the story with attempting to understand where the main character is coming from. Nevertheless, Poe does his best to portray the character as being cunning, yet mad to get the audience to attempt to solve why the main character killed the old man before he goes on to state why. Before he goes on he states about how cautious he is before the ray of light hits the old man’s eye. The literary technique that Poe uses to demonstrate this, is epizeuxis “cautiously—oh, so cautiously— cautiously…” (Poe 4). Here he emphasizes how cautious the main character is to give the audience the illusion that he did not kill the old man out of cold blood, but with caution and reason. Subsequently, the main character makes it clear why he wants to kill the man, because of his glass eye, he makes reference to the “Evil Eye” which goes with old sayings and beliefs of how the evil eye bestows misfortune, and illness upon whomever it is place upon, sometimes even considered a curse. Poe uses this to imply that this is the reason why the main character kills the old man. Towards the middle of the