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Furthermore, Poe tells us that perversity, which corresponds to the maelstromic collapse phase of God’s individuation, is so integral to human experience. Poe wrote that in the original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the germ of their Inevitable Annihilation. In his prologues to “The Imp of the Perverse” and “The Black Cat,” Poe describes perverseness as the germ or elemental seed of annihilation that resides within the psyche. According to Poe, people wreck their lives because of impulses beyond their control. It is the irrepressible, ever louder tell-tale heart that marks the ruination of many of Poe’s narrators.

Perhaps Poe??s most lucid portrayal of radical, primitive impulse?? perversity resides in his tale The Cask of Amontillado. . Montresor exploits Fortunato’s vanity concerning the connoisseurship of wine; specifically, Montresor pretends to want a wine cask of Amontillado verified as genuine. Montresor chooses a time when Fortunato is drunk to dupe him into going down the spiral stairs into the catacombs. But rather than a mere cask of wine, Fortunato finds his death; for Montresor bricks him into a niche of the catacombs which has remained undisturbed for the fifty years since the murder was performed. Montresor and Fortunato represent a doppelganger illustrative of perversity. Fortunato indulges in worldly pleasures. Montresor acts as his judging half to kill him. They are actually but one person with divided personality. If William Wilson is a tale about continuously unchecked perversity which results in the annihilation of William Wilson, The Cask of Amontillado can be seen as a tale about the perversity, whether is checked or not, nevertheless bringing destined total destruction for perversity is imprinted in human mind by God, will unavoidably destroy the person concerned to resolve the duality of human life.

Creativity and perversity approximates the contraction and expansion of the universe. If we are justified to be proud of the supremacy in our creativity among all creatures, we are equally obliged to acknowledge the perversity, which Poe believes, is secreted in every material and spiritual filament of the cosmos, to be as strong as creative power in human beings. This primal impulse will eventually obliterate the Self into Oneness. Only in God??s unity, all matters escape from their conflicting nature and a normal state assumes.

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