This document provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Mohammed Basher Saleh and Hussain Ali, supervised by Sara Faisal. It discusses key themes in the story like guilt, madness, and the unreliable narrator. Through close analysis of the text, it examines how the narrator's mental state deteriorates as his guilt over the murder intensifies. In the end, his conscience becomes his "tell-tale heart" and drives him to confess. The document concludes Poe uses precise language and plot construction to highlight the narrator's declining sanity.
This document provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Mohammed Basher Saleh and Hussain Ali, supervised by Sara Faisal. It discusses key themes in the story like guilt, madness, and the unreliable narrator. Through close analysis of the text, it examines how the narrator's mental state deteriorates as his guilt over the murder intensifies. In the end, his conscience becomes his "tell-tale heart" and drives him to confess. The document concludes Poe uses precise language and plot construction to highlight the narrator's declining sanity.
This document provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Mohammed Basher Saleh and Hussain Ali, supervised by Sara Faisal. It discusses key themes in the story like guilt, madness, and the unreliable narrator. Through close analysis of the text, it examines how the narrator's mental state deteriorates as his guilt over the murder intensifies. In the end, his conscience becomes his "tell-tale heart" and drives him to confess. The document concludes Poe uses precise language and plot construction to highlight the narrator's declining sanity.
This document provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Mohammed Basher Saleh and Hussain Ali, supervised by Sara Faisal. It discusses key themes in the story like guilt, madness, and the unreliable narrator. Through close analysis of the text, it examines how the narrator's mental state deteriorates as his guilt over the murder intensifies. In the end, his conscience becomes his "tell-tale heart" and drives him to confess. The document concludes Poe uses precise language and plot construction to highlight the narrator's declining sanity.
Ministry of High Education and Scientific Research
University of Baghdad College of Arts Department Edgar of English
Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart
By Mohammed Basher Saleh & Hussain Ali
Supervised by Asst. Lecturer Sara Faisal
31st May 2020
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer and critic famous for his dark mysterious poems and stories, including ‘The Raven’, ‘The Black Cat’, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer poet critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured imagination and interest off readers around the world. Is imaginative story line and tales of Mystery and horror giving birth to the mother in detective story. Many of Poe’s works including “The Tell-Tale Heart “and “the fall of the House of Usher”, became literary classics. Some aspects of Poe’s life, Lucky’s literature is shrouded in mystery and the line between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death. “The Tell-Tale Heart “
“The Tell-Tale Heart” By Edgar Allan Poe is a gothic fiction story.
The story uses suspense madness guilt, and the descent into derangement with the concept of insanity. “this trademark horror Tale shows Poe at the height of his imaginative and autistic powers. With its or general storyline that the simple first scene a person which is the narrative in his confession by a murderer. The man Madness it is obvious from the beginning but in his retelling of the story the line of Truth and hallucination is left blurred, making the reader and the events and the madman imagination seem real”. In his discussions of the short story form, Poe insisted that each element of a story contribute to its total effect. From the narrator protestations of his sanity in the opening lines to his confession in the last. Edgar Allan Poe guilt and Madness played a big role in The Story plot. Poe’s short story of murder and Madness made to hunt the dreams of whole new generation of readers. Suspend was one of the main factors in the story, Poe writing Style is very suspenseful and keep even the most reluctant reader engaged. The story written so well that it is easy visualise. Also due to it’s amazing to read is great for students to read and study. The narrator is seemingly unable to Cup with his guilt and eventually confesses everything to the police ruining his “perfect crime “. One of the major themes in “the tell-tale heart” is the effects of guilt or conscience. In the story the narrator’s sanity is definitely in question he kills the old man because of his is “Evil Eye” but then feels guilty about it.
In the story we see the devolving of the narrator. At first he is very
proud of himself and consider himself very clever and proud of himself by getting away with his murder. When the police arrived, he tells them with cool nerve there is nothing wrong then leads them to the old man’s room
In the enthusiasm of my Confidence, I brought chairs Into the room, and desired Them here to vest from Their fatigues ،while I myself , in the wild audacity of my Perfect triumph, placed my Own seat upon the very Spot beneath which reposed The corps of the victim. (p. 6) However، his confidence gets get the better of him. While he is in that room، his guilty conscience starts to bother him. He begins to imagine that’s the old man’s heart is still beating.
But, ere long I felt myself
Getting pale and wished Them gone. My head ached, And I fancied a ringing in In my ears…. (p. 6)
The ringing in his ears represents his conscience, and his growing mental instability. In the end, it becomes obvious the narrator is losing his mind and it might have been clear to the police all along why else would day day-to-day and talk about nothing. Poe’s narrator loves the old man he is not greedy for the Old Man’s wealth, nor vengeful because of any slight. The murder of the old man shows the extend to which their narrator separates the Old Man’s identity from his physical eye. The narrator sees the eye as a completely separate form the man, and as result, he is capable of murdering him while maintaining that he loves him. Conclusion
“the tell-tale heart” is one of Poe’s shortest stories, written to
provide a study of paranoia and mental deterioration. A voting of details held to intensify of narrator’s obsession with specific entities like the old man’s eye. Heartbeat and claim of his sanity. Pointed and economic language contributes much to establish the relationship of language and theme. The story also highlights logical contradictions contribute to murderous profile. Moreover, there is tension between Love and Hate capacities of the narrator; he lost the old man but he hates his vultures’ eye. This paradox mind and explore the physical logical complication for human mind but people sometimes horn even those persons whom they love or need in life. The words, the phrases and the sentences analysed highlight that the narrator has got a special ability of storytelling in a precise and complete manner and Poe uses his narration his syntax and plot construction also in the way to oppose is Naruto and his plea to prove himself sane. References
