The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” consists of a monologue in
which the murderer of an old man protests his insanity rather than his guilt: ”You fancy
me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen
how wisely I proceeded...”By the narrator insisting so emphatically that he is sane, the
reader is assured that he is indeed deranged. By using this irony the narrator creates …
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…that this unbalanced person guards himself against one danger while
being overcome by another. However, in the end the tell-tale heart, is not exactly
some twisted sense of conscience that brings him to confess. The narrator might be
overwhelmed by many fears, such as his own death or isolation from the rest of the
world. The beating heart is a tell-tale, a sign, that whatever horrors haunted him before
continue to stalk him.
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