3 Aspects On Why The Tell – Tale Heart Is Interesting


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The Tell- Tale Heart is a story created by a master of suspenful story, Edgar Allan Poe. And here are 3 aspects on why The Tell - Tale Heart is worth reading :



  1. The Sanity Of The Narrator

the narrator's sanity was
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         This is what makes the whole story. The narrator begins his tale by trying to convince the reader that          he is not mad :
      
“...but why WILL you say that I am mad?”

Soon after he adds :

“You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded – with what caution – with what foreshight, with what dissimulation, I went to work!”

The narrator throws comments like this throughout the rest of the story, as he works to reminds the reader that he is not mad. What is brilliant about this is that the reader is forced to question the narrators’s credibility from the very first few lines and paragraph of the text. If he is clearly wrong about his judgement of his own sanity, can the reader trust anything he is telling at all?

       2. Suspense

suspenful situation was built with caution
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It wouldn’t be written by Poe without this. Poe was masterful at developing suspense in his short stories. This one, in particular, is a great example. Because the pace is literally designed to quicken like a nervous, pounding heartbeat. We see this when he kills the old man :

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“It grew quicker and quicker, louder and louder, every instant. The old man’s terror must have been extreme! It grew louder and louder, I say, louder every moment!”

and again at the end when he confesses :

          “I felt that I must scream or die! -- and now – again – hark! louder! louder! louder! LOUDER!”

Of course this is his OWN heartbeat he is hearing, as he grows nervous about being caught.

       3. Tone

the narrator's tone changed frequently via images.search.yahoo.com

The narrator’s tone is uniquely erratic because it wavers back and forth between smug and excitable. It is almost comedic at times. For example, he describes the gruesome murder of the old man, and immediately follows it with :

“I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done.”

His use of repetition makes him sound like a real person, recountingnan actual experience and trying to emphasize the exciting parts.





                By : Arynaa Azzahra (183211053)

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