The Occult in A Tale of the Ragged Mountains Essay -- Ragged

The Occult in A Tale of the hassle Mountains     In his collection of criticism on Poes stories, Thompson discusses the use of the occult in A Tale of the Ragged Mountains. He begins the article by explaining that this story might be the product of Poes fascination with, merely detached attitudes toward, the pseudoscientific occultism of his age. He gives us some technical terms for the techniques that Poe uses in this story metempsychosis is the transmigration of souls, and is the word that surfaces frequently throughout this discussion of Ragged Mountains. First Thompson discusses the idea that Poe set up the tale in a very specific way as he puts it, Poe himself wove a web for the pop the question of unraveling. He believes that Poe set up a series of clues to guide the reader through the story. So, first the reader gets a scientific explanation of the events that seem supernatural, which is thusly followed by a psychological explanation (which is the opposite of the scientific facts). The final clue is the reader discovering that this tale is very similar ...