Another important thing to discuss is that, in what ways Poe's writing is a projection of his inner feelings and thoughts which oozed out on the paper and if possible to argue about his conscious or unconscious intentions for writing this particular tale. .
2. Gothic Literature.
The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reason, grew in response to the historical, sociological, psychological, and political contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Galens 2002:281). Certainly, any close examination of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde in the nineteenth century demonstrates both the transformation and the influence of the Gothic. In the twentieth and twenty- first centuries, the ongoing fascination with horror, terror, the supernatural, vampires and werewolves, reveals the power the Gothic and Dark Romanticism continues to exert. In its attention to the dark side of human nature and the chaos of irrationality, the Gothic provides for contemporary readers some insight into the social and intellectual climate of the time in which the literature was produced. A time of revolution and reason, madness and sanity, the 1750s through the 1850s provided the stuff that both dreams and nightmares were made of. (ibid: 282).
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3. Sigmund Freud .
Psychology's most famous figure is also one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud's work and theories helped shape our views of childhood, personality, memory, sexuality and therapy. .
Freud's major ideas are as follows:.
The Conscious and Unconscious Mind.
The Id, Ego, and Superego.
Life and Death Instincts.
Psychosexual Development.
Defense Mechanisms.
Most important psychoanalytical terms applied in this particular short story, include:.