The Premature Burial; Edgar Allan
Poe. Paola Herrera & Andrea
panameño
Plot
Narrator fears
Catalepsy
sometimes the patient stays a
single day or even more severe
than exhilarated lethargy
Caractheristics
Patients lie for a short
day or short period
Senseless and emotionless
Hearts pulsation faintly
perceives
He was afraid to be buried alive
The narrator talks about cases of people being burried
alive
Mr. Edward Stapleton
Death of typhus fever.
His body was taken from his grave three days after
his funeral to be dissect by some practitioners.
The practitioners made an incision on
the abdomen of the man and applied a
battery inside.
The practitioners made a
rough gash in the man
chest.
The man arose
from the table.
Stapleton was alive and restores to health.
An officer of Artillery
man of gigantic stature and
excellent health. he was knocked
down by an indomitable horse and
suffered a very serious
concussion on his head
Received a contusion after being thrown by a horse.
Declared death.
After his funeral a man declared feeling a commotion of the earth in the officer's grave.
The people took spades and the head of the man appeared.
Declared Alive in the hospital.
The galvanic battery (medical experiments) killed him.
Mademoiselle
victorine Lafourcade
A young woman of an illustrious family, rich and
very beautiful. she had fallen in love with a poor
litterateur but pride came to reject him and she
ended up marrying a diplomat monsieur who on
occasion was able to hit him. after spending
miserable years she died.
was buried, not in a crypt, but
in a common grave
his love went to look for her with the
romantic purpose of unearthing the corpse
and seizing her precious hair when he
found her alive when he reached the grave
the vital pulsations had not completely
disappeared and the caresses of her
loved one woke her up as she had been
mistaken for dead
The wife of a lawyer
was in the city of Baltimore;
she was suffering an
inspected disease, she was
supposed to be dead and had
all the characteristics to be
dead
Her faced was
contracted
Her lips showed the usual marble pallor
her eyes had no shine
lacked heat
The narrator talks about his own experience suffering of
Catalepsy
And because of that, he decided to remodel the family vault so as to admit of being readily
opened from within.
There were arrangements also for the free admission of air and light, and convenient
receptacles for food and water, within immediate reach of the coffin intended for my
reception
there was suspended from the roof of the tomb, a large bell, the rope of which, it was
designed, should extend through a hole in the coffin, and so be fastened to one of the
hands of the corpse.
The narrator suffered an experience which marked him forever.
He believed that he was buried alive in a grave that was not his.
He realized it was not like that and decided to make changes in his life,
He became a new man and decided to live a man's life.
Analysis
Poe is well known for this kind of stories, which always let us a message
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad
Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell- but the imagination of man is no
Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral
terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful- but, like the Demons in whose
company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour
us- they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.
In the paragraph before we can take a look at the kind of
thought that the writer had. facing a mental issue as
Catalepsy is something which some people have to live with.
Imagine living your life with the fear of felt unconscious and
then being buried alive. How the narrator faced it and then
how he could get over it was what amazed the most and
showed us that we can always fight back.