Tell Tale Heart Climax

The Calamitous Plot of the Tell Tale Heart Who knew that the heart of a corpse would gossip and eventually point out the suspect inadvertently? The feeling of nervousness and a sense of rage would plague the mind of an individual, who was sane at mind until he looks in the eye of an old man. The “Eye”, which resembles that of a vulture, is a pale eye with a film over it. This very “Eye” gave the narrator a notation to take the life of the innocent old man. (par. 2) On his quest to annihilating the “Eye” of the old man, the narrator put together a very wise plan in which he was going to kill the man. Around midnight every night he would open the old man’s door, very gently and he would open the door just enough where he could fit his
head in to observe the old man and flick the lantern just enough to get a view of the vulture “Eye”. This would go on for 7 days because every night the “Eye” was closed. Upon the 8th night he was even more cautious with his plan he proceeded to succeed in the killing the old man. As he was engaged in the plan, he chuckled at the sight of disturbing the old man knowing that this will awaken him and his evil “Eye” would be visible forcing him to master his plan. As the man aroused from his bed he asked if any one was there, and remained awake for hours as the narrator remain as still as a statute. The narrator after the hour he remained paused, he pursued in his act by flicking the lantern just enough to see the evil “Eye”. “It was open, wide, wide open- and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness- all a dull blue with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones, but I could see nothing else of the old man’s face or person; for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.” (par.9) Adding to the climax is the crisis between the narrator and the old man’s heart.
The beating of the heart, which was a sound that was dull, low and a quick, such as what a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. This very sound increased the narrator’s aggression. The beating continued to increase in sound, hasty and hasty as the old man grew more terrified. The blustering sound caused the man to react promptly to avoid the disturbance of the neighbors. The narrator then, leaped at the old man and the old man shrieked as the narrator proceeded in suffocating the old man with his bed. After killing the man the narrator checked the heart of the dead man after several minutes he continued on to the concealment of the body. He dissembled the body parts in a quick but soundless manner and then he detached to planks from the floor and placed the body in the ground so cleverly that no one would be able to detect it. The title of the story “The Tell Tale Heart” indeed foreshadowed the upcoming events that progressed after the murder. The visit of the town officers played a very important part of the story, as the two gentlemen question the narrator about the complaints from the neighbors of a strange sound coming from his home. The officers remained in the house for a while, overly extending their visit as if they knew something wasn’t right, and indeed it was nothing right. The narrator made sure he stood over the very spot where the body was placed to not give the
officers any clues, but the sound of the old man’s heart began to agitate him causing his skin to turn pale and act unorthodoxly and soon or later he confessed in the killing of the old man, which ironically gave the name of the title “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. The element of fiction which was the plot truly went through a serious of scenarios that lead to the murder of the old man. But the fearful heart of the old man foreshadowed the events to come. The heart even thought it was now deceased continued to beat in sync that forced the narrator in admitting to killing the old man. So “The Tell Tale Heart” which mean mean’s the gossiping of the heart, so in a way the old man got even.