The Tell-Tale Heart Literary Analysis
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, is an amazing piece of Gothic Literature. It’s genre can mostly be interpreted as a Horror or short story. There are multiple settings to this story, the first one is the narrator's. In the home him and an old man are living together. The other setting is an prison/insane asylum where the narrator is telling the story.
The issue that drives the story is the beating of the old man’s heart. The narrator is constantly complaining that the old man's, heart was beating unbelievably loud. In the story it says ¨now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too¨(Poe). He is driven crazy just by the sound of his heart beating,
The issue that drives the story is the beating of the old man’s heart. The narrator is constantly complaining that the old man's, heart was beating unbelievably loud. In the story it says ¨now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too¨(Poe). He is driven crazy just by the sound of his heart beating,