From Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe
From Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
In the excerpt, “from The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe creates the over-confident character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of what other people do, internal thoughts, and dialogue, Poe illustrates a story about guilty conscience and reveals that guilt can manipulate anything.
Poe uses what other characters do in the poem to contribute to the narrator’s over-confident character. In the excerpt, the policemen first enter the house as suspicious and skeptical of the narrator, but after the narrator shows them around the house, they become unsuspicious and their guard is let down, especially when the are sitting on top of where the old man is buried.
In the excerpt, “from The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe creates the over-confident character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of what other people do, internal thoughts, and dialogue, Poe illustrates a story about guilty conscience and reveals that guilt can manipulate anything.
Poe uses what other characters do in the poem to contribute to the narrator’s over-confident character. In the excerpt, the policemen first enter the house as suspicious and skeptical of the narrator, but after the narrator shows them around the house, they become unsuspicious and their guard is let down, especially when the are sitting on top of where the old man is buried.