In "The Tell Tale Heart" when the old man's eyes is closed he would not be killed because his eye is not considered ugly. That is why each night the man goes into his room to see if the eye is open. "... but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye."(139) The eye when open represents the ugliness of the old man. When that ugliness is present, beauty is g

In "The Fall of the House of Usher" Madeline is beautiful once she gets sick her brother, Roderick, gets sick and everything seems to fall apart. Madeline's beauty had kept the evil down and covered up. As Madeline gets sicker and sicker it gets worse and worse. Finally when Madeline dies beauty no longer exists Roderick goes crazy and everything is destroyed because beauty was not there to cover up all the evil that they possessed. The absence of beauty caused all evil to break loose. The house collapses and Roderick is destroyed.

Evil is the absence of beauty because when beauty no longer exist it is the evil that will come out. Everybody lives in the presence of evil our only escape from that evil is beauty. This can only happen momentarily because beauty cannot exist forever.

In "The Black Cat" the cat to him was beautiful and precious. "This latter was a remarkably

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