The Murder Victim: Unnamed person whose property passed to the narrator.Madame Pilau: Woman who died after inhaling the smoke from an accidentally poisoned candle.The Listener: Unnamed person listening to the narrator’s story.The Narrator: An apparently demented man who appears intelligent and well educated.He ends up on death row after a perverse impulse causes him to confess the murder.He inherits an estate after murdering its owner.“I am one of the many uncounted victims of the Imp of the Perverse.” (pg 281).“The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing….”.The narrator admits he has always wanted to anger the listener (reader) with confusing language.Poe cleverly reveals the ‘narrator’s own ‘imp’ by being so wordy!.in philosophical terms (primum mobile, à posteriori) ), logic (phrenology) and mysticism (Kabbala).Part 1 Is written in essay style mentioning subjects.The opposite is displayed in the character C.Many of Poe’s characters display a failure to resist The Imp of the Perverse.Poe wrote it to justify his own actions of self-torment and self-destruction.It discusses the narrator’s self-destructive impulses, embodied as The Imp of the Perverse.#RIPXIV The Imp of the Perverse is a short story that begins as an essay.Theme: an impulse forcing people to act irrationally.
Setting: 1830-1840’s in prison cell, narrator tells his story…how he got on death row.Published: July 1845 in Graham’s Magazine.
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