Academic vs non-academic texts

Poe explores the similarity of love and hate in many stories, especially “The Tell-
Tale Heart” and “William Wilson.” Poe portrays the psychological complexity of
these two supposedly opposite emotions, emphasizing the ways they enigmatically
blend into each other. Poe’s psychological insight anticipates the theories of
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis and one of the twentieth
century’s most influential thinkers. Poe, like Freud, interpreted love and hate as
universal emotions, thereby severed from the specific conditions of time and space.
The Gothic terror is the result of the narrator’s simultaneous love for himself and
hatred of his rival. The double shows that love and hate are inseparable and
suggests that they may simply be two forms of the most intense form of human
emotion. The narrator loves himself, but when feelings of self-hatred arise in him,
he projects that hatred onto an imaginary copy of himself. In “The Tell-Tale
Heart,” the narrator confesses a love for an old man whom he then violently
murders and dismembers. The narrator reveals his madness by attempting to
separate the person of the old man, whom he loves, from the old man’s supposedly
evil eye, which triggers the narrator’s hatred. This delusional separation enables
the narrator to remain unaware of the paradox of claiming to have loved his victim.

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1. Is it written by an expert? Does the writer have any credentials?

2. Does it address a specialized audience or the mass public?
3. Is there a logical flow that can be easily followed? Are readers enabled to
follow the argument? Are the arguments supported by critical analysis?
4. Is it based on other research?
5. Is it peer reviewed by authorities specialized on the same field?
6. Is it objective? Does it provide factual information?
7. Are readers provided with a reference list?