Analysis Of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart
A heart beating is a normal thing unless you are the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”. In the story the narrator who is nameless works for an elderly gentlemen. The gentlemen has a film coated eye which haunts the narrator. The narrator claimed it looked like a Vulture’s eye. The narrator was so bothered by the eye, he killed the man. At the end of the story the narrator said he could hear the man’s, “hideous heart” beating. The lens is psychoanalytic because of the many aspects to the story.
The narrator is telling the story as he is confined so his audience would most likely be someone who works at the prison. Possibly a psychologist. In the story the Narrator asks the audience “why will you say that I am mad?”. Ultimately, …show more content…
He foreshadows by writing “ above all was the sense of hearing acute.” He uses foreshadowing to prepare the reader for the end of the story when the narrator confesses and claims he can hear the beating of the old man’s heart. The tone goes through a dramatic change throughout the story. In the first paragraph the narrator says “how calmly I can tell you the story” at the end he shrieks at the police and calls them villains. At the beginning, the tone is calm and confident but at the end he is rather anxious and defeated because he confessed to the police after calling them villains. In the end, the author communicates that someone may think they are so clever and just has “hearing acute” but in reality they are going crazy and they are the only one that knows it and everyone else is oblivious. The tone, the vocabulary used to describe the narrator, the location where the story is being told, and what the narrator considers himself to have versus reality causes the conclusion that the lens is psychoanalytic. The tone changes throughout the story from calm to anxious and defeated. There was vocab such as dissimulation and gesticulations. The narrator claimed he had “acute hearing” but in reality he is probably schizophrenic. This text is important because in 1843 when the story was written, mental illness wasn’t as researched and treated properly. People were seen as freaks basically. So Poe writing a story about a man who is probably schizophrenic
The narrator is telling the story as he is confined so his audience would most likely be someone who works at the prison. Possibly a psychologist. In the story the Narrator asks the audience “why will you say that I am mad?”. Ultimately, …show more content…
He foreshadows by writing “ above all was the sense of hearing acute.” He uses foreshadowing to prepare the reader for the end of the story when the narrator confesses and claims he can hear the beating of the old man’s heart. The tone goes through a dramatic change throughout the story. In the first paragraph the narrator says “how calmly I can tell you the story” at the end he shrieks at the police and calls them villains. At the beginning, the tone is calm and confident but at the end he is rather anxious and defeated because he confessed to the police after calling them villains. In the end, the author communicates that someone may think they are so clever and just has “hearing acute” but in reality they are going crazy and they are the only one that knows it and everyone else is oblivious. The tone, the vocabulary used to describe the narrator, the location where the story is being told, and what the narrator considers himself to have versus reality causes the conclusion that the lens is psychoanalytic. The tone changes throughout the story from calm to anxious and defeated. There was vocab such as dissimulation and gesticulations. The narrator claimed he had “acute hearing” but in reality he is probably schizophrenic. This text is important because in 1843 when the story was written, mental illness wasn’t as researched and treated properly. People were seen as freaks basically. So Poe writing a story about a man who is probably schizophrenic