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    Jessica Clark Matthew Chase English Comp 2 MWF 10:00AM October 3rd‚ 2011 A Guilty Conscience Shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is an intellectual murder story told from a first-person perspective of an eccentric narrator who kills a man because he is so frightened of the man’s eye. The mad narrator ultimately is unable to maintain his innocence to the deed. The narrator is obsesses with the vulture eye of the old man who he lives with

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    The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Copyright Notice ©2011 eNotes.com Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic‚ electronic‚ or mechanical‚ including photocopying‚ recording‚ taping‚ Web distribution or information storage retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher. ©1998-2002; ©2002 by Gale Cengage. Gale is a division of Cengage Learning. Gale and Gale Cengage are trademarks

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    Matthew Rico English 1302 Anthony Buenning 30 November 2012 The Tell-Tale Heart Final Draft Has it ever crossed our mind to murder someone? Maybe it was a physical deficiency that drove us into hating them and their disfigurement‚ and it led to us to hurt them. Have we ever felt the rush of taking someone’s life‚ or the responsibility that follows such a dreadful deed? The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” has felt all of this. As you go through the story‚ the reader can see how mentally

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    Andrew Fiddler Professor Esquivel English 1020 15 February 2013 Themes of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allen Poe explores the similarity of love and hate in many stories‚ especially “The Tell Tale Heart.” In “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” the narrator confesses a love for an old man whom he then violently murders and dismembers the body and hides the pieces below the floorboards in the bedroom. When the police arrive‚ the narrator appears normal and unshaken by the murder. Later on‚ the man gives in

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    Beating Heart With a descriptive epistle of murder and insanity‚ “The Tell Tale Heart” threw itself into history as a classic. The narrator tells of his plot to murder an old man with a “vulture eye.” Although he sneaks into his bedroom‚ night after night‚ he still cannot murder the old man‚ because he loves the man‚ but hates the eye. When seeing the vulture eye on the eighth night‚ he murders the old man and dismembers his body. While insisting upon his sanity he hears the old man’s heart beating

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    Analysis - Like the narrator in Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart"‚ the narrator of "The Black Cat" has questionable sanity. Near the beginning of the tale‚ the narrator says he would be "mad indeed" if he should expect a reader to believe the story‚ implying that has already been accused of madness One of Poe’s darkest tales‚ "The Black Cat" includes his strongest denouncing of alcohol. The narrator’s perverse actions are brought on by his alcoholism‚ a "disease" and "fiend" which also destroy his personality

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    specifically The Tell-Tale Heart‚ this story has many criticisms that help explain related underlying messages and thoughts in the story. Through relative works of Poe The Tell-Tale Heart can be compared. The Tale Tell Heart shows the narrator’s attempt to rationalize his not so loving behavior. John Canario in the book‚ Readings On The Short Stories Of Edgar Allan Poe‚ claims that The Tell-Tale Heart is a nightmare about death in this dream the old man is the narrator’s alter ego and they are essentially

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    The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe 1. Author’s biography - 1809-1849 - He was an American author‚ poet‚ editor‚ and literary critic. - He was considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre‚ Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story‚ and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known

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    horror and detective genres and his literary legacy endures to this day. In the Tell Tale Heart the main character‚ the narrator‚ has a problem with an old man‚ the antagonist‚ whom he is living with. The odd thing is that the problem has nothing to do with old man‚ how he acts‚ or even his attitude towards the narrator. It is simply one of the old man’s eyes which is blind or he can’t see a hundred percent in one eye. The narrator’s description of the eye is that it resembled that of a vulture

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    Tell tale heart 1 Read the story ’the tell tale heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe 1 Write a 2 sentence summary of the plot It starts with the narrator talking about how he stalked an old man for many nights until one night he decides to kill him because of his vulture eye‚ (he hides the body parts underneath the floorboard). The police arrive and he then he acts casual as if nothing happened and shows them around the house‚ until he feels guilty and hears the beating of the old man’s heart and confesses

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