Do you think that human nature has a darkness like Poe describes in the Pit & the Penulum? Do you think that human nature has a darkness like Poe...

Considering
that at the age of three Poe was sat in the front row of the theater six days a week to watch
his mother perform the role Juliet, it is not difficult to see the partial origins of his dark
view of humanity. What I find even more interesting with Poe's work is that all of his
characters struggle mightily with that dark element and some are more successfulthan others in
finding redemption. The quality of the mirror that Poe holds before the reader is
astonishing.