Hopefully this will turn into or be merged to an Official Discussion thread.
ATM, we need a place to crossover debate to, from another forum. Now I think you’re proving SK’s point. Revenge and the profit motive might be more comprehensible, but are they really more evil then random destruction? It’s a good thing that we may say one is excusable in his insanity in contemporary courts, but here we’re talking pure definition. Haven’t you ever experienced such a delusion? I have them all the time; I mostly keep the fact to myself, but I am really pretty freaking paranoid. lol
The fact remains that even if it were literally absolute truth that his eye was evil, it probably wasn’t necessary to kill the man. Another Poe classic is Masque of the Red Death, in which poetic justice befalls an ignorant ruler. Like many of his works, its supernatural element may be interpreted symbolically… or literally.