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In ten pages this paper considers the life of author Edgar Allan Poe, how his works were influenced by his depression and suicidal tendencies, and how suicidal tendencies manifest themselves in his famous short story, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
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would achieve everlasting fame for defining Americas gothic horror genre and writing the first detective stories spent most of his life in virtual obscurity and became known only after death
and through his novels, short stories, and poems. One of his earliest short stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, is also one of the most revealing about the authors personal struggles
with mental illness. First published in Bostons Pioneer magazine and then later in the Dollar Newspaper in January of 1843, the story discusses what appears to be a narrators
description of his obsession with an old man living in his house (Magistrale 82). For seven nights, the narrator fixates on the mans eye, describing it as either
resembling a vulture or looking evil (Poe 138-139). Finally, on the eighth night, the narrator kills the old man, then gleefully shares with his readers how he successfully dismembers
his body and cleans up all traces that he had ever lived there. However, with every lie the man tells to cover up his purported crime, he becomes increasingly
ill and cannot rid the sound of the mans hard beating inside his head. Finally, when police arrive on his doorstep at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the
narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it represent the authors own first-person account of his growing psychosis and the suicidal tendencies associated
with them? There is definitely more to this classic short story than meets the eye. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 to actors Elizabeth
and David Poe, Jr. on January 19, 1809. He was the second of three children, two sons and a daughter (Kehoe 96). His fathers abandonment shortly after the
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