The Imp of the Perverse
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The Imp of the Perverse
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"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. The narrator describes this spirit as the agent that tempts a person to do things "merely because we feel we should not." In the story, the narrator commits murder to inherit a man's estate. A coroner attributes the death to an act of God, and the narrator
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1845 work by Edgar Allan Poe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imp_of_the_Perverse
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2024-01-15T23:36:59Z
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