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This 3 page paper is a reaction to Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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reaction to his class story of murder, The Tell-Tale Heart. Discussion The first thing a reader will notice about the story is
that its narrated by a madman! The first line convinces one that the narrator is insane, for two reasons. First, because he works so hard to prove hes not and
second, because he admits he has "the disease" (Poe). "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" Here
hes answering the accusations that have been made about his mental state and screaming as he does so. Then he tells the reader why his insanity is a good thing:
"The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). This may be acceptable, but he goes on to say that he could now hear everything in heaven
and earth, and some from Hell itself (Poe). But this, he says, doesnt make him mad and to prove it hell tell the entire story and let the reader judge
for himself. The story is only four pages long and is very tightly constructed; its terror grows with every line until the end when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator
who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the story is the narrator/murderers coolness in relating how he butchered "the old man" when he had
no reason to do so, except for the sick fantasies of his own rotting brain. The old man had a "vulture eye," an eye with a film over it, probably
a cataract; but to the narrator it was nothing less than the Evil Eye of the devil himself (Poe). That eye could see through him, and disliking what he learned
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