A theory on Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven
Continued on (kind of) from here
While the subject was on The Raven, I just share a theory I had on it. In most public schools your forced to read The Raven at one point or another. For me it was during Middle School, when I was in a small class of about 10 or so students for English (it was an AG class, where AG is North Carolina's version of a gifted class. I'd take this chance to make fun of North Carolina and there schools here, but the school system I was in was actually good.) The small size was nice for the age level we were at, it let the class have a little more relaxed feel. So we read The Raven, and began talking about it and people were giving their idea's for what they thought it's purpose was. When it the discussion came around to me, I proposed my idea.
The guy is with his lover, Lenore, pretty happy couple, inseparable and in love. Guy somehow gets enraged and murders Lenore, probably with a giant axe to chop off her head. After murdering Lenore, he was pretty unstable (well he had to be to murder her) and was like OH SHI- and had to get rid of the body. Well the head was disposed of in the only head shaped object we know of in the room, the Bust of Athena. The raven comes in, he doesn't talk. The raven lands on the Pallas Athena. What is Athena the goddess of? Wisdom. So now Lenore, who's head is inside Athena's head, is answering the guy's questions, through the raven (of course she's only answering with nevermore, the guy just brutally murdered her, I'd try to make him go crazy too). The guy then goes crazy and pretty much gives up on life, unable to forgiven himself and forever condemned to be with Lenore, nevermore.
Anyway, just another pointless thought, in the same category of being bored enough to rewrite The Raven or thinking about numbers and the personalities they have.