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What is /lit/'s analysis of this short story?
I want to hear your most outlandish opinions on this.

>> No.621505

buump

>> No.621516

The heart represents religion in an increasingly urban and secular society.

>> No.621536

The man with the wacky eye represents satan, the main character's jealousy to extinguish evil is represented in the murder of the wacky eyed man. Now the guilt associated with the beating heart represents the universe where an absolute state of utopian "good" can never occur and "evil" is a meaningful and often misunderstood part of life, eradicated for the wrong reasons.

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>> No.621555

it was a story about a paranoid murderer with a bad case of guilt

>> No.621568

>>621555
yeah.

Don't look too much into Poe man. Waste of time.

>> No.621571

>>621555
Wow, that has to be the single most creative interpretation to have ever graced my fine eyes. You sir are a god.

>> No.621579

The story is about a homosexual love affair gone wrong. The guy who kills his "master" wants to remember the idiosyncrasies that kept him there.

The heart is a representation of a forbidden love -- in the closet, under the floor board. When the cops come, the killer is not coerced into telling the truth -- but rather has to tell someone...anyone the validity of his relationship.

outlandish enough (although I myself don't believe my own argument, but you're looking for the most outlandish right).

>> No.622095

>>621568
i happen to actually like some of poe's poems
particularly the Raven
>>621571
i appreciate your "positive"? comment

>> No.622118

It's a statement on Neo-Conservativism and Western-Imperialism.