Once the narrator is in the tomb and “night were the universe”, the darkness in the setting is clear. At this point we know that the narrator is surrounded by darkness and inevitably, the feeling of fear is aroused, both in the reader and the narrator. The darkness that Poe presents is quite strong and equally strong is its effect. When the narrator says that “it was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that there should be nothing to see”, darkness is presented as that which the narrator fears the most; the more the darkness be presented, the more the fear would grow. Poe builds on this idea consistently,
Once the narrator is in the tomb and “night were the universe”, the darkness in the setting is clear. At this point we know that the narrator is surrounded by darkness and inevitably, the feeling of fear is aroused, both in the reader and the narrator. The darkness that Poe presents is quite strong and equally strong is its effect. When the narrator says that “it was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that there should be nothing to see”, darkness is presented as that which the narrator fears the most; the more the darkness be presented, the more the fear would grow. Poe builds on this idea consistently,