In the confessions of opium eater on of the interesting aspects
of the story which it crosses is the boundary between reality and fantasy. The
main character in the story explores what is created for him in his subconscious
from his desires to the fears he has. One thing to note is that drugs of any
sort that enters the body affect the brain and sometimes changes the whole functionality
of the brain. With this in mind, the drugs seem to unlock a further truth
inside himself in which he didn't realize without the drug. Therefore, his
desire to seek the higher truth makes him want it more and eventually becomes
the addiction. The opium in the story could be represented as a key to the subconscious
mind the main character ignored. Often times the story goes in to the
perceptive of what most drug uses in our time face, not the law, but themselves.
what your saying reminds me of what we discussed about the Kubla Khan poem by Coleridge. The aching need by writers to get to that area of themselves of pure expression without being hindered by things like thinking rationally about the matter. This post reminds me of the surrealist way that many books and music were written during the time because of the wide usage of drugs and the effect this created a new culture of writers and rearranged how people viewed the world.
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