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A 3 page essay that offers an interpretation of Poe’s class short story. What sort of “love” allows a person to take a life? What goes on inside the head of a mad man? These are questions that Edgar Allan Poe explored to perfection in his 1843 short story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In this tale of horror, Poe gives a first-person account of a murder, a senseless murder, of an old man that the assailant professes to love. Due to this statement, Scott Peeples frames his interpretation of this narrative as a love story, but asks, “Does he kill him even though he loves him, or because he loves him?” (Peeples 287). Poe is ambiguous on this point, but Peeples asserts that one thing is certain—“…he loves him but wishes for his death” (Peeples 288). Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to perfection in his 1843 short story "The Tell-Tale Heart." In this tale of horror, Poe gives a first-person account of a murder, a senseless murder, of an old man
that the assailant professes to love. Due to this statement, Scott Peeples frames his interpretation of this narrative as a love story, but asks, "Does he kill him even though
he loves him, or because he loves him?" (Peeples 287). Poe is ambiguous on this point, but Peeples asserts that one thing is certain-"...he loves him but wishes for his
death" (Peeples 288). Close examination of the story does support the contention that there are two distinct emotional positions vying for dominance in the narrators tortured brain. While it
may be debatable as to whether or not the affinity that the narrator has for the old man could be labeled "love," this affinity is similar to the way that
a son might identify with his father at certain times. When narrator hears the old man groan in terror, he merges his personality boundaries with those of his victim and
"feels the old man in himself" (Peeples 287). Considering this, it seems inexplicable to the normal mind that the narrator could bring himself to harm to the old man, as
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of the story is that the narrator is
justifying his actions to the reader. The narrator begins by relating that he is sick-not mad-but rather with a nervous malady that sharpens his senses. He then goes on to
"prove" his sanity by telling this story "healthily" and "calmly" (Poe). He is not sure when it first occurred to him to murder the old man, but once having thought
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