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A 5 page tutorial analysis of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart. No additional sources cited.
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by a man who insists he is not really made, although he has essentially murdered someone, a friend, for no better reason than he did not like the mans eye.
The following paper provides a tutorial analysis of the plot, point of view and the development of the narrator. Poes The Tell-Tale Heart In first looking at the
plot it is obvious from the beginning that the story has already taken place and the narrator is telling the reader about what happened. They are going back in time,
all under the premise that they are not insane and wish to prove this to the reader. This can be seen as a very powerful introduction to a plot for
it establishes that something of great importance has happened and thus gets the reader interested. This becomes even more clear, one could say, when the reader sees how insistent the
narrator is, providing the point of view, in relationship to the story and his insanity, or lack thereof. The narrator states, in doing this and introducing the story: "How, then,
am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily--how calmly I can tell you the whole story" (Poe). From there the plot shows that the man picked to be murdered
by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye that seems to be one
suffering from cataracts. In analyzing the plot one can argue that perhaps the slow and determined illustrations prove to build the narrative and the suspense as the narrator tells why
they had to kill the, then moves on to killing them and ultimately dismembering the man and then putting his heart under some planks in the floor. In the end
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