The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
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The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". It describes the characters including a wounded man, Pedro, a woman in a portrait, and her painter husband who is obsessed and moody. The setting is a 19th century home where the painter becomes so focused on creating the perfect portrait of his young wife that he fails to notice her slowly dying while sitting for him. When he finally looks up from his work, he sees that the portrait has come to life, while his real wife lies dead, having sacrificed herself to his monomania and desire to capture her beauty.
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
- 1. The Oval Portrait By Edgar Alan Poe
- 2. Biography Edgar Allan Poe. Born in Boston, Massachusetts January 19 1809 Dark romanticism gender Themes like: pre-maturial burial,decomposition, death, reanimation, Monomania.
- 7. Light Setting Plot I thus saw in vivid light a picture all unnoticed before .and sat meekly for many weeks in the dark
- 8. Point of View First Person Third Person Objective
- 10. Tone And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter It was thus a terrible thing for this lady to hear the painter speak of his desire to portray even his young bride he grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, This is indeed Life itself! Turned suddenly to regard his beloved: - She was dead! --
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