One will be the rational, logical thinker, represented by the consciousness and the other one will be a ghostly being, overtaken by the powers of the subconscious. ... More than a regular story, the latter one, is a study of the unconscious mind, and in some critic's opinion is an early version of Freud's theory of the subconscious. The word "imp" means "tiny demon," and it refers to the impulses that exist in every persons mind. ... In the same time, the author seems preoccupied with the image he creates of himself in the reader's mind (or in the mind of the person he is narra...

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• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

Are these experiences hallucinatory, a subconscious escape from dissatisfaction with his own marital life? ... If he has indeed travelled back in time then these experiences match his subconscious and it is a true escape from the life he lives. ... This rise and fall of his state of mind could be part of the drugs disruptive influence upon him but throughout Daphne du Maurier keeps the onus fair and square upon the obsessive nature of this past world. ... Shunning more and more the petty and fickle modern life, his mind is staying far more in the then, than the now, causing himself much distre...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Edward Davidson suggests that Montresor, the main character of the story, "has the power of moving downward from his mind or intellectual being and into his brute or physical self and then return again to his intellectual being with his total self being unimpaired" (202). ... For a few brief moments when Fortunato is silent (as is Montresor's evil self), Montresor's rational mind is reinstated and he hesitates from adding another tier to the wall. ... By burying Fortunato alive, Montresor kills the one who, in his mind, represents those evils. ... If one's subconscious self is o...

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Writing in the perspective of psychological description Junfeng and Haiyuan said, "Psychological description is mining figures inside the subconscious and characterizing people's inner feelings and mental activity. ... It can be severe or can be not severe at all to kill someone but protagonist's disturbed mind turns him into killer. His action seems like that of a cold mind avenger. ... This desire is fulfilled by their ego which their conscious mind controls. ... His own mind deceived him as he had failed to listen to his superego. ...

• Word Count: 2343
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School