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Essay - The Imp of the Perverse Discuss the key elements of character, language and theme of "the Imp of the Perverse" Refer to at least one other story in the course of your response. "The Imp..." is a story that demonstrates on many levels the theme of Perversity. It begins with a very impersonal, discursive tone, examining humanity's tendency to be perverse in the style of a metaphysical essay. The language here deliberately unsettles the reader with its use of rhetorical questions and superfluous repetitions: "If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being? If we cannot understand him in his objective creatures, how then in his substantive moods and phases of creation?" Here, the unnamed narrator speculates philosophically whether humans should look at the world, and the nature of the human condition (including that of perversity), from a fixed viewpoint, or...

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