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A 3 page paper which examines the unreliable narrators in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the understanding that the narrator is not to be trusted, or the reader can quickly see that the narrator is mentally disturbed somehow. As such the reader quickly knows that
the narrator is unreliable, and so they read the text deeper to see a truth hidden therein. The following paper compares and contrasts the narrators from these two works as
they illustrate how the unreliability of the narrator quickly alerts the reader to the fact they must look deeper for truth than that which is presented by the narrators.
Unreliable Narrators: Poe and Browning Poes poem begins with words that immediately set off red flags for the reader as he insists, "TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I
had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them" (Poe). His words speak of a
sense of disillusionment, a level of insanity, emphasized by his use of the word "disease" that ensures the reader will be cautious and know he is, indeed, mad. All of
his protestations ensure we will not believe him, or will not believe his side of the story as he believes he was righteous in the murder. We believe what he
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is not to be trusted
or sided with. Browning approaches the introduction from a different perspective that speaks of arrogance as noted in the first few lines: "Thats my last Duchess painted on the
wall,/ Looking as if she were alive. I call/ That piece a wonder, now: Fr? Pandolfs hands/ Worked busily a day, and there she stands./ Willt please you sit and
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