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When the narrator moves the candelabra he notices the oval portrait in the corner of the room. This strikes the narrators curiosity to find and read about the painting in the book, where the tragedy of painting it is told.

The actual oval portrait that takes the life of the wife, because the painter she marries is as much in love with this painting as he is with her. The wife ends up dying by the time he completes the painting.

The king's wine goblet serves as the straw that broke the camels back in the short story "Hop Frog." Hop Frog, the court jester, plotted revenge after the king threw wine from the goblet in Trippetta's face; all because she was trying to save Hop…

The jester of fool shown here was a used in ancient kings courts to ridicule or belittle. This was an important theme in "Hop Frog" to show just how careless and cruel the king was.

The raven is a black bird that sits on a bust of Pallas above a door. The bird repeats the word "Nevermore" in response to the questions of the resident of the house he is sitting in.

The significance of the raven is that it is often known as a…