The facts of the case of m valdemar6/29/2023 ![]() Keywords: FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER BYRONIC HERO POSTHUMANĬritical Summary: In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” an unnamed narrator directly addresses the reader, offering to explain, once and for all, the true facts in the famous case of M. The narrator is an expert in hypnosis, and develops a fascination with the idea of mesmerizing someone at the very moment of death, to discover what would happen to the hypnotized mind after the moment of passing. The narrator contacts an acquaintance of his, M. Ernest Valdemar, who is dying from complications resulting from tuberculosis. With Valdemar’s approval, the narrator hypnotizes Valdemar just before Valdemar’s death after the moment of passing, the narrator is still able to address the hypnotized Valdemar, who, with great effort to make the actual sounds, tells the narrator first that he is asleep and dying, and then later asleep and already dead. ![]() The narrator spends the next seven months interviewing the mesmerized, dead, and yet still conscious Valdemar, with similar result throughout. In most cases, one’s natural born instinct is to fear death, because of the unknown. ![]() At the end of these seven months, however, during an otherwise typical interview, the hypnotized Valdemar suddenly, under great distress, begs to be put back to sleep or brought back to life entirely. Valdemar: The Inevitability of Death Death, every human, animal, and living being has to face it at one point in time in their life it is inescapable regardless of the circumstances. ![]()
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