https://padlet.com/michellemouton/4o3b08otf0dt0chm Romanticism en-us 2021-06-10 18:01:39 UTC 2026-01-22 09:20:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png https://padlet.com/michellemouton/4o3b08otf0dt0chm/wish/1601181678 Poe explores the psychology of madness in this story. The man is definitely deranged, however, he uses logic to tell a completely illogical story. 
Themes: Obsession/Innocence vs. Guilt/Remorse/Depths of Mental Deprivation - What does it mean to be insane? 

]]> 2021-06-11 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/michellemouton/4o3b08otf0dt0chm/wish/1601181678 https://padlet.com/michellemouton/4o3b08otf0dt0chm/wish/1601190723 This story made us feel as if we were talking with a mad man.Told from the 1st person perspective, we have an obviously unreliable narrator. This becomes apparent through the extensive use of imagery (appeals to the senses). The man cannot separate the "I" from the "Eye" - he cannot conceive of the man as a whole person - much like Georgiana in Hawthorne's "The Birthmark". We saw the cloudy blue vulture eye as a symbol for how the narrator perceives the world's view of him; unable to see him for what he is. The narrator seems extremely manic and his fixation on the eye leads to overwhelming guilt (the sound). The imagery and punctuation add to the narrator's frantic nervousness and gives the reader a sense of urgency and ironic sadness, as we know he is very guilty, as does he (by the end of the story, his guilt gives him away. ]]> 2021-06-11 14:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/michellemouton/4o3b08otf0dt0chm/wish/1601190723