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The Tell-Tale Heart

Date Submitted: 12/17/2003 11:43:13
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 7 pages (2026 words)
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. (about 2000 words)
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