He in fact says that his foray into the investigation will, "afford us amusement."" (53) Even the narrator notes that this is a strange vernacular but does nothing else about it, most likely concluding that by using that diction, the investigation must be a trivial matter for a detective of Dupin's caliber. ... This is why, "that Adolphe Le Bon had been arrested and imprisoned "although nothing appeared to incriminate him, beyond the facts already detailed." (49) When the police arrested Le Bon, they only proved Dupin's point that when police are unable to come up with solid f...

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About a third into the poem as he [the narrator] opens up the door, he finds "darkness there and nothing more.... " The bust of Pallas refers to a statue of Pallas Athena, the Greek Goddess of wisdom and truth. ... As Celia Goldman notes in her piece, "As the narrator descends into madness, he asks the Raven more and more'self-lacerating questions. ... " Through Poe's use of the symbols together, the reader grasps a sense of the painful grief-stricken, mournful narrator's internal struggle between truth and knowledge and his dark [black] ominous conscience ...

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Prior to the initial meeting between Montresor and Fortunato we are already aware that there is nothing fortunate about Fortunato. ... We know the truth behind the smile whereas the character in the story does not. ... It is ironic to note that the reader is well aware that Fortunato shall not die of a cough. ...

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• Grade Level: High School