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Edgar Allan Poe( January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849) was born in Boston Massachusetts. He was an American short story writer, best known for macabre and mystery kind of tales and inventor of detective stories.He had also contributed his part in Scientific fiction, known as sci-fi. He was the only American writer, who earned bread from his writing short fiction.

Due to financial crisis, he only attended Semester-1 at university of Virginia and was taken by John and Frances Allan, but never adopted formally and his publishing career commenced modestly with an anonymous collection of poems, 'Tamerlane and other poems'(1827) credited only to a Bostanian.

Short Stories

The Black Cat: The protagonist at first is the lover of the animals but in aftermath due to his own superstitions and perversary it changes into hatred. As a result, his wife and cat is murdered by his own hands. As the guilt is still nurturing in his heart, when he buys another cat, he sees in it the same cat, which was murdered by him. In bizarre state of mind, he kills it also and eventually his sins are exposed.

The Cask on Amontillado: Is a revenge story. Where Montresor takes revenge from Fortunato, as he had once insulted him. With the help of Amontiallado, Montresor, lures Fortunato into the catacombs and buries him alive.

The Raven 

The Penn(Stylus/Journal)

The Tell Tale Story

The Fall of the House of Usher 

The Golden Bug

And many more...

A contemplation to psychological sorted out questions..

[Assigned as pre-task]

01. Recollect a moment of your life when you were at the height of ferocity (anger) on someone with/without some specific reason. What did you feel like speaking to or doing with that person?

Ans: It happens many a times with a person and as we're humanbeings and as it is one of the basic primitive instincts, it keeps on surfacing on and often. When it happens with me, I'm keeping mum and trying to look into and ponder upon my own actions. If found any mistake from my side, rectifying it and if it is something from external influences, then trying to evade and ignore.

02. Have you ever felt tremendous drive to hit or murder someone? When? Why? How? Elucidate.

Ans: For this I would like to say, that I haven't ever given any emotion, stimulation at such extremity and as it isn't handled in this manner, I wouldn't have ever  think murdering anyone.

03. Have you ever felt like committing suicide? Was it just a passing thought or you were serious? What propelled you to think so? Describe your experience (although momentary) of suicidal tendency.

Ans: I haven't ever think as such. Life is the gift of God, why one should destroy it!

04. Write about the scariest of your dreams. Have you ever cried or screamed by a bizarre and horrible nightmare? Elaborate.

Ans: No, It hasn't happened yet and I pray to God, It shouldn't happen with me or anyone else.

05. Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever undergone any experience of supernatural elements? Explain.

Ans: No I haven't seen any ghost in my real life or experienced any supernatural things. But yes I like the most to watch and read supernatural kind of stories.

As recent this incident came into light that "a French school teacher named, Samuel Paget" is beheaded by a fanatic Islamic terrorist as he was teaching critical thinking to his students.

It doesn't seem to be fanatic but may be the person who killed, knowing about what is critical thinking and how is the person, possessing the critical mind. It is easy to make people dumb, when they're lacking such ability of thinking and emotional conditioning of mind is made possible, as it was the case, the person wants to prevent the teacher from imparting the knowledge of what is critical thinking.

If one is fighting with one, when one is equally powerful then one can consider its authenticity and equivalency. But if it isn't then how one is to evaluate. Though we had heard and we're told that such insignifical and foolish sins are eradicated from the society with the help of such eminent social pioneers, but the matter doesn't seem so. It is something very different. Still in such corners, where humanity can't reach such cruel incidents are happening. If the person is rightly educated then one can make him/her understand but when it isn't so, the mind only a form of dry rock, where even though we try to pour water, it will soak, but won't double its quantity.

So it happens that one segment of society remains humane and other inhumane. As the matter says, it is required and necessary to take some appropriate steps so the people of every sects get rightly educated in rightful manner.

It seems as the act of emotionality. When the very roots are weak and boggy, how a flower will blossom. "What you show, so shall you reap". Already a creator of a life, is committing something unpleasant in front of his own other part. Though his father isn't having blood relation with his mother, but he has. If his father is emotional, he equally is emotionale, and in extreme emotionality stabbed his father. It happens..

The second news of how a young married boy committed suicide, due to his in-laws frequent threats to release his wife from marital bondage.

Works Cited

Mehta, Jay., "An introduction: Passion, Perversity and Poe", Sunday, September16, 2018.