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Montresor's Revenge In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
Of Montresor’s noble family’s honor, pride, and tradition of perfect revenge and Montresor’s fixation of revenge that led to a downward spiral into insanity, neither is greater than the other. To truly find out one would have to ask Edgar Allan Poe himself. Even if one could ask Poe, Professor Amper would say, “In regard to Poe in particular, our understanding has come a long way. Research on Poe tells us that there is a great deal more to Poe than first meets the eye. It certainly provides a picture of Poe's work very different from what most readers conceive. Research has revealed, indeed, a bewildering tangle of contradictions in his work, which leaves us with astonishingly little consensus about what Poe is all about. Most scholars would

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