The Tell Tale Heart Point Of View Analysis

The author’s purpose in “The Tell Tale Heart” is to explain that the narrator is insane and spends most of his time on the short story trying to convince us that he is not crazy. He uses first person point of view and structural choices such as strategies: repetition, manipulation of time, and word choice. And these techniques help develop central idea of insanity throughout the story. The author uses first person as his point of view to show the readers how the narrator views the world. Such as describing his thoughts and feelings. The short story states, “nervous… Dreadfully nervous… but why will you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my senses. I heard many things in heaven and in the Earth. I heard many things in hell.”(para.1) This quote shows the point of view of the narrator and how he uses word choice such as ‘I’ to show that first person is used. He lets readers know how he views the world, and what his thoughts are and what his feelings are. Thus, point of view
How insane the narrator was to sneak around the old man’s bedroom every night for hours at a time just patiently staring and opening and closing the door. His thoughts were always constantly thinking about the ‘Evil’ eye when the author used the strategy of the manipulation of time. This emphasized how insane the narrator was because no sane person thinks about something non stop, obsessively. And Poe uses repetition to focus on the narrator going crazy. By repeating the word ‘louder’ to show that the narrator was hearing the heart of a dead person when that is impossible. Therefore, structural choices develop central idea. In conclusion, Poe cleverly used the first person POV and structural choices to go in dept of the narrator being insane. All in all, techniques used made readers focus on the central idea of