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The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

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'The Tell-Tale Heart '' By Edgar Allan Poe, is a dark story about an old man and his caretaker who is also the narrator of this tale, the caretaker is convinced he is in an exceptional mental state although he ends up killing the old man because of his “evil” eye. The old man is blind in one eye and the caretaker is terrified of his blind eye. The narrator's point from the beginning to the end of the story changes gradually; and there are a number of reasons for this, but in some ways his point of view has stayed the same. There are quite a few similarities between the narrator's point of view from the beginning of the story and the end. The first similarity is that throughout the story the narrator continuously tells the readers that …show more content…

e is not mad by saying “If you still think me mad, you will no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.” (Allan Poe 12) In both situations the narrator explains to the reader that is not “mad” This shows that the …show more content…

The first example of this is that at the beginning of the story the narrator was explaining to us how he felt about the old man; the narrator said he “loved the old man” (Allan Poe 2). This illustrates how in the beginning of the story the narrator saw the old man as a good man he says “he had never wronged me. He had never given me an insult." (Allan Poe 2) The narrator at the beginning of the book was only “vexed” by the old man's blind eye, he described it as “his eyes resembled that of a vulture” (Allan Poe 2). This is when we have no reason to believe the narrator is insane, and the narrator even seems to have a point about the eye. But as the story progresses the narrator gets so blinded by his mental illness that he starts to hate the old man as a whole. This is illustrated when even the old man's heart beat, started to increase the narrator's hate and madness. He states this by saying “It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury” ( Allan Poe 10) The narrator's illness had become so severe that he forgot the reason he felt unease by the old man and started to even hate the sound of his heart. This proves that the narrator's point of view has changed from the beginning of the story till the end because, at the beginning of the story the narrator likes the old man but not his eye as said in

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