They are interested in the dark side of human nature and the tools that take them to the depths of it and to the sublime: perverse thinking and visualization of terrible scenes. Introduction For Dark Romantic/gothic writers have delight in transgression and representation of evil, their works often present stories of the sublime through perversity: Frankenstein (1818) and the stories of H.P. He elaborates on what lies beyond reason, the common and the worldly, that is the sublime subverting Kant's notions about the working of human mind. Using the aesthetic theory of pleasure and terror, and feeling the depths of the unconscious, Poe scrutinizes these urges.
The stories are the discussions about the nature of the unknown and the irresistible motives to do wrong.
The narrators experience the sublime much later, while confessing, and make the reader undergo the sublime experience of wonder, horror, suspense and terror together, leaving him aback. They experience the sublime through pleasure while doing evil which makes the reader/the perceiving subject experience the sublime at the same time, not getting pleasure but through wonder, suspense and terror. Both narrators assert that their urges and deeds are normal, necessary and inevitable. The obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoia together stand out in the most extreme, leading to ignore the aftermaths of their actions. The transgressors kill their victims obsessively and arbitrarily to construct order and beauty for themselves their experiences of the sublime realize first through their committing murders intelligently and talentedly, and then making confessions of them.
They are the analyses of amoral and transgressive acts. These stories of horror genre contain sublime experience they are the mixture of horror, terror and pleasure which disturbs the human reason. This article enquires into Edgar Allan Poe's (1809-1849) "The TellTale Heart" (1843) and "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845) in the light of the Kantian sublime.
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