Why the Bride is so submissive and quaint and why the painter is so obsessed with his job of painting. ... In the beginning of the story the narrator compares the chateau to the dark castles in Ann Radcliff's stories which had a gothic setting. ... " (292) The book describes the painter, an eccentric obsessed with his art of painting and worships it more than anything even more than his beloved wife. ... Regarding these explanations it can also create an innate "Oedipus complex" in Poe himself later strengthened by the evidences in his writing as his portrayal of other wom...

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• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate