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What is the theme of "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe?

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The narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting.

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The theme of the oval portrait is Fatal love, the wife in the story loves an artist but he loves his art. so by the time he was done it happened that she had died by his side.
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