Analysis Of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

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Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, novelist, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his horror stories, mystery and rare adventures such as his famous tale The tell-tale Heart. He was also considered to have contributed to the emerging science fiction genre. He was born January 19 1809 and died October 7 1849. Tell-Tale Heart is a story told from a third person perspective. It is about a person who is mentally ill who imagines that an old man 's eye got his blood to freeze. Therefore, he decided to kill the old man and hide his body. When the police came to investigate what has happened, he panics and tells them about what he had done. But in the story the author chooses not to mention what the main character is called or neither if it was his house or not. The main character is a special person who feels crazy or mentally ill. Because he hears voices in his head. Even the way he tells this novel is strange and a good example of this was when he was nervous and spoke loudly, but the police did not act which means that he was the only one who heard these sounds. Therefore, I think that the person is crazy and unstable because he imagines things. I also think that there are two personalities of narrator because one of them makes proud after killing the old man, while the other side is terrified. This is noticeable when the scared part takes over him and admits the police what he had committed. I do think that the climax point of the story took place during the

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