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Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)|
CHARLES DICKENS, in a note like a shot lying before me, alluding to an examination I once do of the mechanism of Barnaby Rudge, saysâ€"By the way, are you aware that Godwin wrote his Caleb Williams backwards? He first involved his hero in a sack up of difficulties, forming the second volume, and then, for the first, cast about him for some mode of story for what had been done.|    1|
  I cannot think this the precise mode of subroutine on the part of Godwinâ€"and indeed what he himself acknowledges, is not whole in accordance with Mr. Dickens ideaâ€"but the precedent of Caleb Williamswas too good an artist not to perceive the receipts derivable from at least a somewhat akin process. Nothing is more clear than that every plot, worth the name, moldiness be elaborated to itsdénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is whole with the dénouement constantly in view that we can advance a plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidentals, and especially the tone at all points, black market to the development of the intention.|    2|
  There is a radical error, I think, in the usual mode of constructing a story.
Either history affords a thesisâ€"or one is suggested by an incident of the dayâ€"or, at best, the author sets himself to work in the crew of striking events to form merely the basis of his narrativeâ€"designing, generally, to use up in with description, dialogue, or autorial comment, whatever crevices of fact, or action, may, from page to page, give themselves apparent.|    3|
  I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect. Keeping originality incessantly in viewâ€"for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a cum of interestâ€"I say to myself, in the first place, Of the eternal effects, or impressions, of which the heart, the intellect, or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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