Why Is Edgar Allan Poe Considered A Criminal

Edgar Allan Poe is widely renowned for his “gothic” works. Poe has been known to write dark and gory details and to arouse the fear inside of a reader. In many of Poe’s novels and short stories he tells the tale of criminals. He shows the reader how a man of crime would think and his feelings when committing a crime. Poe shows his depiction of criminals through their similarities, their differences, and his sympathy towards the character. There are many behavioral characteristics widely shown throughout Poe’s stories that show the similarities between the criminals. In his short stories “A Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado,” the criminals are both cold blooded killers. The narrator of “The Black Cat” murders his beloved cat and wife
because he “loves” them. The narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado” seeks revenge and therefore kills Fortunato by entombing him inside of a wall. The broadest similarity between the two criminals is that they acted mercilessly. These two characters killed without an ounce of guilt during nor afterwards.