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This kind of preoccupation about the humanity's natural return to do and be evil is reflected in Melville's essay, wherein he contends, "...this black conceit pervades him (Hawthorne)...You may be witched by his sunlight...but there is the blackness of darkness beyond..." That is, beyond the laws of morality lurks behind the evilness of human nature.
Melville subscribes to Hawthorne's implicit portrayal and depiction of humanity's natural and evil nature in his novel, "Moby Dick." Through the character of Ahab, readers witness that his preoccupation to capture Moby Dick is actually his desire to divest himself of his own evil thoughts and feelings. This is illustrated in Chapter 132, wherein Ahab himself questions his real motives for his desire and need to capture the great whale: "...what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me...Is Ahab, Ahab?" similar portrayal of the "hidden evil" is the character of Montresor in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." Beyond the cultured and calm manner of Montresor, giving the observer the image of a moral person in him, a madman resides within, a man who is vengeful and intolerant of insults that he plotted to murder Fortunato, the 'unfortunate' individual who have "injured" Montresor. The protagonist's mask...
Death is undesirable because of the limit that it puts to human life; however, it is, at the same time, desirable because it puts an end to sorrow and suffering, as expressed in "My life stood": "And then a Plank in reason, broke,...And Finished knowing..." In Dickinson's case, death assumes an insignificant role to an individual's life, in the same way that death (and insanity, in Poe's case) is preferred over a meaningful life by the protagonists of the Works Cited by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe.
Bibliography
Hawthorne, N. E-text of "The House of the Seven Gables." Available at http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/sevengdex.htm.
Melville, H. (1851). E-text of "Moby Dick." Available at http://www.americanliterature.com/MD/MD132.HTML.
Poe, E.A. E-text of "The Cask of Amontillado." Available at http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html.
Works Cited by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe.
Bibliography
Hawthorne, N. E-text of "The House of the Seven Gables." Available at http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/sevengdex.htm.
Melville, H. (1851). E-text of "Moby Dick." Available at http://www.americanliterature.com/MD/MD132.HTML.
Poe, E.A. E-text of "The Cask of Amontillado." Available at http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html.
Such evidence as there is can be taken up at a later time. But of one thing we can be sure. If Virginia was the prototype of Eleonora she was not the model for Morella or Berenice or Ligeia."(Quinn, 255) These feelings can also be inferred from Poe's letters to Mrs. Clemm, Virginia's mother: I am blinded with tears while writing this letter-- I have no wish to live another hour.
During this penultimate period of violence under Rojas, the violence that wracked Colombia assumed a number of different characteristics that included an economic quality as well as a political one with numerous assassinations taking place. These were literally contract killings there were sponsored by opposition forms. There were also horrendous genocidal acts that were carried out by gangs combined with authentic revolutionary fighting in some regions of the country. The fourth
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