Comparing Edgar Allen Poes The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and

Comparing Edgar Allen Poes The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and The Tell-tale HeartThe short stories of Edgar Allen Poe licence the authors ample gifts in the psychology of the mind, regardless of the fact he was decades onwards of Freud. Poes short stories be often from the deranged and murderous point-of-view of the narrator, who often illustrates the inner-workings of his hold psychology and the disintegration of the self brought about by mental disorders, aberrations, and separate factors (anxiety, substance abuse, etc.). Perhaps two main factors omnipresent in the Poe mental realm are substance abuse (i.e. drink) and taphophobia (exaggerated fear of being bury alive). In short stories like The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, and The Tell-tale Heart, Poe constructs a psychological world where alcoholism and the fear of being buried alive are inextricably intertwined. So, too, the combination of them has an impact on the narrators and characters in his stories . Poes own alcoholism and taphophobia are inextricably intertwined in the psyche of his narrators and/or characters. In only three of these short stories, the narrator an... ...xacerbates the psychological symptoms being manifested due to taphophobia. Yet, these stories lavishly demonstrate Poes own preoccupation with alcohol and drinking as salutary as his neurosis with respect to being buried alive. References Anonymous. (2001). Criteria for Substance dependency Diagnosis. DSM-II-R, NIDA, Available http//www.nida.gov/DSR.html, 1-3. Anonymous. (2001). Lets talk facts about phobias. APA, Available http//www.guggenheim.yourmd.com, 1-4. Poe, E. A. (1966). Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. New York, NY Doubleday & Company, Inc.