The Imp of the Perverse

by

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Imp of the Perverse Characters

The Narrator

The unnamed narrator is a condemned man attempting to convince the reader that an irresistible impulse, which he calls the Imp of the Perverse, made him commit murder. The narrator, who apparently has an… read analysis of The Narrator

The Victim

The man that the narrator murders at the story’s outset. Aware of the victim’s nightly ritual of reading in bed, the narrator swaps the man’s candle with a poisonous one, knowing that the victim’s claustrophobic… read analysis of The Victim