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: Define the "outsider" archetype and introduce the narrator's predicament. State your thesis (e.g., that the narrator's physical monstrosity is a metaphor for psychological and social isolation).

The most common interpretation of the story is as an . Lovecraft often felt like an outsider in his own time, and the narrator's literal isolation in a dark, decaying castle mirrors the author's own feelings of social alienation and physical self-loathing. El extraГ±o

: Discuss the symbolic weight of the mirror. It serves as the point where the narrator's subjective identity (human) meets objective reality (monster). : Define the "outsider" archetype and introduce the

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