The Tell-Tale Heart Guilt
Jesse Puttarat
Mrs. Samora
LA 8: Per 4
13 March 2017
The Tell-Tale Heart
Have you ever gotten that feeling of guilt after doing something? Have you ever done something that you regret? Would you go insane from your actions? Would you be able to live on knowing what you’ve done was a terrible thing? What would you do? In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, he writes about a person who gets driven into insanity due to an old man’s “vulture eye”. He starts the story with the narrator explaining how he is not mad, “how calmy can I tell you the whole story”(Poe 1). Poe uses irony, symbolism, and metaphor to develop the develop the suspense in the story and to prove his point that guilt can lead to insanity, also lead to perverseness. Evidence lies in Poe’s life story, as most of his family left him in one form or another. They all contribute into a part …show more content…
It adds the suspense of the narrator's fear and hatred in the “vulture eye”. As the narrator watches the old man sleep every night, he shone a lantern on the man, as a “Thin ray fell upon the vulture eye”(Poe 3). This is where the narrator is now beginning his fear of the old man which he claims stares down his soul and is watching him at all times. How the eye looks like as Poe puts it as a “mercury” color like. He also describes the eye as a “vulture eye”, where that means that it scavenges for their prey and watching you. As Poe describes the old man’s eye, it supports the story by adding the details on how the eye looks which would add the fear of the eye more. Well symbolism adds suspense and reason why the narrator went insane later on. It describes. Symbolism adds the good suspense in the story which makes it better , but symbolism isn’t the only literary device that adds suspense. As symbolism isn't the only thing that gives suspense , there's two other literary devices that help contribute to the
Mrs. Samora
LA 8: Per 4
13 March 2017
The Tell-Tale Heart
Have you ever gotten that feeling of guilt after doing something? Have you ever done something that you regret? Would you go insane from your actions? Would you be able to live on knowing what you’ve done was a terrible thing? What would you do? In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, he writes about a person who gets driven into insanity due to an old man’s “vulture eye”. He starts the story with the narrator explaining how he is not mad, “how calmy can I tell you the whole story”(Poe 1). Poe uses irony, symbolism, and metaphor to develop the develop the suspense in the story and to prove his point that guilt can lead to insanity, also lead to perverseness. Evidence lies in Poe’s life story, as most of his family left him in one form or another. They all contribute into a part …show more content…
It adds the suspense of the narrator's fear and hatred in the “vulture eye”. As the narrator watches the old man sleep every night, he shone a lantern on the man, as a “Thin ray fell upon the vulture eye”(Poe 3). This is where the narrator is now beginning his fear of the old man which he claims stares down his soul and is watching him at all times. How the eye looks like as Poe puts it as a “mercury” color like. He also describes the eye as a “vulture eye”, where that means that it scavenges for their prey and watching you. As Poe describes the old man’s eye, it supports the story by adding the details on how the eye looks which would add the fear of the eye more. Well symbolism adds suspense and reason why the narrator went insane later on. It describes. Symbolism adds the good suspense in the story which makes it better , but symbolism isn’t the only literary device that adds suspense. As symbolism isn't the only thing that gives suspense , there's two other literary devices that help contribute to the