The Evil as Principle of Disorder in Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe, Bon-Bon, moral, satireAbstract
The philosophical problem of evil constitutes a recurrent theme in literature. The idea of a human propensity to evil, resulting in a form of madness is mentioned several times in Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction. Evil coming from an external source is a secondary element in Poe’s tales, but evil as a result of a kind of “moral insanity” is frequent. This paper aims to analyse how this precept was integrated by Poe’s first narratives, particularly in “Bon-Bon”. The objective is to demonstrate that evil as moral corruption of human nature is not an exclusive issue to Poe’s major tales, but also of his initial comic pieces.
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