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Quote #10
"The worst of all the things that haunt poor mortal man," said I; "and that is, in all its nakedness--Fear that will not have light nor sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms. It followed me through the corridor, it fought against me in the room----" (57)
Here we have the narrator’s dramatic announcement that Fear is what haunts the red room. Whereas before he was dismissive of fear, he is now terrified of it. He’s had a firsthand experience of its power. Fear has the power to make a person lose control of himself. It doesn’t respond to reason. It’s a real invisible enemy, just like a ghost would be (that’s part of what makes it so scary). The narrator even goes so far as to identify fear as an enemy of mankind.