The fate in a novella: Edgard Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (18097-1849) was a major American writer that in the novella of pendulum and the well has synthetized the human destiny, both his and of the human gender, generally as a pendulum that changes the position very speedy but it keep always his nature, and repeats always the same position, because it turns on the same positions always, and on the begin of this novella he has anticipated this following change: “(The jugds)shown to me as the slender and white angels, ready for to save me, but after a nausea overcame the my wit, and every fibers of my body vibrated  as I have touched the wire of galvanic cell, and the angelic form became to specters without mean…”; it is the anticipation of the following mutation of the prison in the cell, this is the destiny that changes always. Other summary and symbolic reference to the destiny is the dark of the cell, the prisoner wide the arms but he not touches something, and it is other indication necessary for to reader to consider the symbolic nature of the novella; because the dark is the unknown of future, and the continues analysis of interior dynamic of the prisoner is the reference, the first to the realism of Poe, that I have descripted(Realism of Poe), but the second is to the symbolic nature of the man, that in face to future is the uncertain, hence his wit and his psychology is stirred. And the hands of prisoner that touched a wall is, symbolically taught, some sureness that we can reached during our life: “The my hands met finally an obstacle. Its was a wall build through the stones, smooth, humid and cold…”; it is the sureness that we have read, and the awareness of the prisoner, that every event in the life is alone momentary, because the description is pitiless: “I followed(the wall), running with the prudent distrust”; and the yarn that the prisoner uses for to find again the point where he has started is the initial sureness that we after leave for to search something around, and something that we haven’t found before, but the wicked surprise is the well that the prisoner finds in his cell: “Here, the my chin and my lips not lay on the floor. In the same time I felt my front humid for a cold vapor…I longed a my harm and I was in fair that I have failed on the edge of a well…”; it is the wicked surprise  that usually we have found during the enjoying of something. The sleep that after that the prisoner has drunk, may for an drug is the psychological calm that we have after the reached a sureness. And other meaningful step is the following: “How much time it lasted I don’t know, but as soon as opened the eyes, I could ascertain that the object around were visible…”;it is the sureness that we have reached when we have known the context, the new context, and finally we can finally see the every elements both important and not important, as the dimensions of the cell where is the prisoner: “…I could see the extension of the prison, About the dimensions of it I understood that I was erred very much”; it is the automatically correction that we bring to a opinion of something that we have taught to be other. Edgar Allan Poe, therefore has described the life of man and his uncertain and his sureness, but everything for a short novella.

Alessandro Lusana