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Unformatted text preview: bound everywhere except for one arm. The narrator feels helpless and completely at the mercy of whatever may happen to him, also a common feeling when one is melancholy. The narrator also ponders and comes to believe that he has been purposely placed so as to experience all these forms of torture. Everyone besides him wants him to suffer. It feels like the entire world is against him and he has no one on his side, another fear that often follows depression. Nearing the end of the story, the narrator discovers that the walls have been moving and closing in on him. These are almost the exact words used to explain the desperation and feelings of no escape common to a deep state of melancholy. Poe symbolizes many feelings of depression through the forms of torture, and uses Romanticism by focusing the tale on a person and their different trials....
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