An Analysis Of The Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his dark and disturbing stories and poems that can keep some people up at night. In this story “The Tell Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe tells about a man who hates the look of an old mans eye. He has nothing against him as a person; he actually likes him, however the old man’s blue eye mocks him. He believes he is smart by acting normal around him while he sneaks into the old man’s house every night trying to cut the eye out. He finally is able to kill the old man and get rid of the burden of the old man’s eye.

“I've heard many things in the heaven and in the earth. I've heard many things in hell”(Poe). In the story The tell tale heart, a man ends up killing his old man over his “Vulture eye”. He loved the old man. But his “evil eye” vexed him and he decided to take his life.

It was all lies” (Gardner 54). It is obvious Grendel suffers the physical pain of being alone, and he gets addictive to hurting others due to his sadness. The more Grendel hears about people getting along he hates them and wants to fight them, because he can not have that. Grendel actions speak louder than his words when conveys his anger against the world. In the quote Grendel portrays this is what he does when he says, “It's all I have, my only weapon for smashing through these stiff coffin-walls of the world”

The mood of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story was carefully crafted through use of the narrator who made the reader feel both on edge and dull. The story starts abruptly by giving no context to the reader, it starts with an unsettling phrase to which leaves the reader puzzled. The narrator shouts, “True --nervous-- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”(Poe). Throughout the story, the narrator continually attempts to prove himself normal to the reader. Even after describing his actions that society would categorize as insane, such as killing a person.

The imagery that Poe uses creates an irrational tone full of anger. When he first sees the eye his “blood ran cold” and later when the old man moaned he, “knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although” he “chuckled at heart”. After the murder, the subject yells about the old

The character of Doodle’s brother behaves with cruel notions toward Doodle. For example, when Doodle’s brother faces the prospect of possibly having an invalid brother forever, he “…began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow,” (Hurst 555). This demonstrates that the narrator would rather murder his brother than have one that is mentally challenged, which is not at all a humane thought, to say the least. Anyone who chooses to murder their blood relative instead of support them through tough times most definitely has wickedness within them, which supports the statement that Doodle’s brother behaves cruelly towards Doodle.

But Mercutio being the hot-headed guy he is didn’t listen to Romeo and kept fighting Tybalt and got killed in the process. Before Mercutio dies, he says, "A plague on both your houses." (3.1.102) putting a curse on the Montague and Capulet houses. Coincidentally in the next few days there are five more deaths in the Capulet and Montague families all thanks to

Poe uses symbolism a lot in his stories to make his writing have a more eerie feeling. ”The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Masque of Red Death” both have symbols that induce fear into the main characters hearts. In The Tell-Tale Heart Poe writes “...for it was no the old man who vexed me but his evil eye “(75).The narrator kills an innocent old man for that hr thought the old man's eyes were judging. Although the old man just had cataracts ,the narrator could not stand the man for his eye he compared looked as vulture's eye. The narrator was afraid of this old man and his “evil eye”.

Next, he sends murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance. Although the murderers were directly responsible for killing Banquo, Macbeth is the true culprit for his loss of life. Macbeth’s guilt continues to haunt him and even takes the shape of Banquo’s ghost. At a dinner party that Macbeth is hosting, his guilty conscience catches up with him when he begins arguing with Banquo’s ghost. This one-sided confrontation makes Macbeth look unstable to his guests.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator should definitely be held accountable for his actions. In the story the narrator lacked a legitimate reason for the murder of the old man. The narrator only wanted to kill the old man because of his eyes. It just so happened that on the eighth night of the narrator stalking the old man for seven days, his eye was opened. “It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew furious as I gazed upon it.”

Captured with Obsession Obsession can control someone’s entire life. If people are unable to handle their fascination, it can alter their reality. Obsession can lead people to extreme acts. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” shows how a man becomes controlled by his roommate’s eye and commits murder so he does not have to see the clouded eye every day.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator is a dreadfully nervous guy who has mental disorder and is obsessed with an old man’s pale blue eye. Whenever the man’s eye fell upon him, his blood ran frigid and always stayed nervous. This anxiety made him more agitated, moreover, he planned to kill the old man. Throughout the whole story his feeling and traits don’t change, however, he seems to have full of confidence on perfect murder. When the narrator stalked the old man every night, it showed that he is so cautious and full of pride.

In the stories The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat, both narrators realize their acts were wrong, but they did them anyway by rationalizing that they were driven by circumstance. The Tell-Tale Heart is about a mad man who truly believes he is not crazy by telling us the whole story. He deeply loves his roomate but his blind eye became a nusiance to him and he couldn’t stand it no more and he had to do something about it. He ended up killing him so perfectly no one whould know, but the guilt ate him up and he amited he had done the deed to the police. Similarly, The Black Cat is about another insane man who drowns his sorrows with achocl and is so confident with himeself.

Human nature is the feelings, attributes, and behavioral traits that all humans share. Many works of fiction use multiple ways to convey messages that readers can relate to, to help them have an extensive understanding of the story. Since human nature is found all throughout society, authors incorporate actions that the characters take, which teaches people to think before they act. Different fictional books often reveal elements of human nature through a conflict between the characters during a certain event in a story. In “The Possibility of Evil, the main character, Miss Strangeworth, gave people her opinions on different topics by writing mean letters to the townspeople because she thought “there was so much evil in people”, eventually

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” is a gothic story about a man’s sanity. The Narrator believes that sanity, and other’s thinking that he is sane, is very important. But his obsession with this idea of sanity, is what makes him stand out for his insanity. Bloom says,“’The Tell-Tale Heart’ is a breathless, frightening monologue of the disintegration of consciousness and conscience under the onslaught of obsession.” Because this story is written in the first person point of view, the reader gets a look inside the Narrator’s mind.