Examples Of Irony In The Tell Tale Heart

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” irony occurs throughout the story. For example, irony occurs when the old man locks himself in his home to escape evil only to be killed by someone within. Poe states, “His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters had been close fastened, through fear of robbers)…” (524). By looking at this quotation, we can see that the old man feared being robbed, so he placed shutters on all the doors to be safe and to keep thieves from stealing his gold and possessions. Ironically, his caretaker or son was the source of evil, and he lived within his home. His caretaker hated the old man’s evil eye and killed him because of it. So, even though the old man tried to escape death and evil, he died in the