Edgar Allen Poe was a very unique writer. In most of his stories he has some element of strangeness. Three stories of Edgar Allen Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, and The Tell-Tale Heart, all show that the narrators were going crazy. Although each story does not have any similarity in plot, all three have the person telling the story losing their minds. Putting this similarity into theme form, each story …
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…has the most intense craziness, and The Raven seems to have the least. The Fall of the House of Usher has its moments when the main character seems delirious. Altogether, Poe's work seems to have a bit of weirdness in each story. The three stories mention have a theme of craziness, but insanity is not necessarily in every one of his stories; it is just the most common used element of strangeness in these three.