![]() ![]() The narrator inherits the man's estate and, knowing he can never be caught, enjoys the benefits of his murderous act for many years. No evidence is left behind, causing the coroner to believe the man's death is an act of God. The narrator begins his story by explaining how he murdered a man using a candle that emitted a poisonous vapor: The victim enjoyed reading in bed at night and, using the candle for illumination, dies in his poorly ventilated room. ![]() He then explains how his conviction for murder was the result of this. This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator admits that he is "one of the many uncounted victims of the Imp of the Perverse". The narrator explains at length his theory on " The Imp of the Perverse", which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest. The narrator describes this spirit as the agent that tempts a person to do things "merely because we feel we should not." Beginning as an essay, it discusses the narrator's self-destructive impulses, embodied as the symbolic metaphor of The Imp of the Perverse. ![]() " The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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