Return To Oneness

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spiritual and material matters in the universe. Being in an unnatural and abnormal state, these spiritual and material individuations long for, and eventually return to the Divine Unity, which is, as I mentioned above, the only natural condition of the universe in Poe¡¯s context. Upon reunification, God recreates the universe in another round in the same way. This is what is called the infinite mind of God. Although Poe¡¯s notion that an artist¡¯s mind should mirror God¡¯s mind is absolutely idealistic, Poe seems to live this ideal to a great extent by employing the image of doppelganger into his tales. Poe believes that the human body and the psyche follow the same pattern manifested in the birth and death of a universe. His doppelganger corresponds to the individualized and differentiated, and therefore unnatural stage of universe. Like the universe at its abnormal stage, his doppelganger instinctively wants to rejoin the body, to . But in what way Poe¡¯s doppelganger returns ...

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and which the visitor first noticed when he approached to it is a manifestation that the dissolutionary seed has sprouted. In this decaying house lived Roderick and Madeline. The sister was so ill that the brother buried her alive and put the coffin away in one secluded part of the house. On a tempestuous night, the sister crept out and died in the embrace of his brother, who then also died. Roderick and his sister¡¯s deaths are simultaneous, and soon after this takes place the physical house divides and collapses. Usher and house reflect God¡¯s mind as they collapse into Oneness.

The Tell-Tale Heart, again, explores the psychology of the bipartite soul. The narrator murdered the ...

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