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A 4 page essay on this work by Poe. The writer discusses the story's underlying themes and in particular, the significance of the constant heartbeat as it relates to the killer's fall into madness. Bibliography lists 4 supporting sources.
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and perfected the psychological thriller. In a fashion indicative of such, stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart successfully combined the elements of an anecdotal psychological thriller with seeds to
create some of the most influential literary criticism of Poes time. (Carlson 62). Before reading The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, I mistakenly
anticipated that it would be just another story of poetic affection and love either newly found or very long lost. Ironically, much to my surprise and to my curious
intrigue, it was a markedly brief tale of graphic madness, inhuman obsession, and empathetic conscious. Its seemingly innocent yet genuinely corrupt title made true sense and blossomed its demented
logic only as I read the poems very last line. Such was indicative of the validity of a remark made by Edward Davidson which suggests that Poes writing
displayed affection for the co-existence of suspense and intrigue. (Davidson 112). Indeed, it was seemingly impossible to "put down" the Tell-Tale Heart until my curiosity was satisfied at
the storys extreme conclusion. Typical of much of Poes work, Tell-Tale Heart is essentially the narrative of a madman. () Graphically describing his emotionally-involved need
to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found myself searching for a motive,
looking for a clue and finding that the psychotic individual relaying the story truly had neither. He apparently was bent on murdering an old
man (specified that he was not a relative) with whom he lived. The earlier half of the story describes the seemingly endless process of murder in which well over
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