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Absence of sweetheartEdgar Allan Poe sees infernal as a living brat to man because he lives in its presence. Parallel with the tragedies in his own life relating to the deaths of his young mother, wife and others he loved in his life. It is no wonder that he sees the absence of ravisher as evil, because he felt the terror and tragedy of the loss of his own life. In his stories he illustrates how the absence of beauty is the essence of evil.In &8220The Tell Tale Heart when the senile man&8217s eyes is closed he would non be killed because his eye is not considered ugly. That is why each darkness the man goes into his room to see if the eye is open. &8220&8230 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 gone and evil is present. The ugliness of the old man&8217s open eye is the cause for his killer to kill him because evil is present and beauty is no where to be found. In &8220The Fall of the erect of Usher Madeline is beautiful once she gets sick her brother, Roderick, gets sick and everything seems to fall apart. Madeline&8217s 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 long-lasting 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.In &8220The Black Cat the cat to him was beautiful and precious. &8220This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.(12) Beauty is what one person sees through his own eyes. &8220The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me to madness.(18) Once he sa w that the cat was no longer beautiful it causes him to murder his wife because all his evil was hidden and once that beauty that he saw died and became none existing everything he was hiding curiously his evil side came out caused him to kill.