The Supernatural, Poe and Irving
In life there is the natural and the supernatural. Often the supernatural in life is easily forgotten or derided. Life becomes too busy and one forgets that there exists good and evil. One should not spurn the urging in the Bible to remember that "we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies - the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world; and against huge members of wicked spirits in the spirit world" (Bible 1194). Neither should one carry their fascination of the supernatural to an obsession. The supernatural good and evil in life plays and role in determining the course ones life will take. This paper will compare and contrast the fascination with the supernatural in Irving and Poe's writings and will tell the effect each author tries to achieve. In Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker", he gives the devil human qualities and describes him as "a great black man seated directly opposite him, on the stump of a tree. He was exceedingly surprised, having neither heard nor seen anyone approach; and he was still more perplexed on observing, as well as the gathering gloom
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Approximate Word count = 1336
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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