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    翁良權 98121232 Introduction to English Literature‚ Wed 34 Professor:馬健君 Paper1: Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統,不要學) Oct‚ 21‚ 2009 Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統,不要學) This story is described from the murderer. He talks about the process how he killed the old man. The name of The Tell-Tale Heart gives the hint for what will happen next and the heart will do something startled. Using the name can make reader interested in knowing what the story will go. In the beginning‚ the murderer

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    Analysis The "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic example of Poe’s unreliable narrator‚ a man who cannot be trusted to tell the objective truth of what is occurring. His unreliability becomes directly evident in the first paragraph of the story‚ when he insists on his clearness of mind and features any signs of madness to his nervousness‚ particularly in the area of hearing. However‚ as soon as he finishes his statement of sanity‚ he offers an account that has a series of apparent logical gaps that

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    The Tell Tale Heart is a short story written by Stephen Crane. The story takes place in Nebraska at the Palace (Blue) Hotel. The proprietor of the hotel‚ Scully‚ brings his guests from a train station which is nearby the hotel. One night he gets “The Swede”‚ “The Easterner”‚ and the cowboy. The narrative is about one and only nighttime when these three men are staying at Scully’s hotel. Their staying is not normal‚ they do not get on well with each other and what’s more they start fighting. The edge

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    Andreea-Cezara Dragomir 1st year‚ University of Bucharest A Psychoanalytical Reading of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Scientists admit that isolated systems tend to behave chaotically. Due to the conservation of energy‚ the particles sometimes become turbulent‚ for instance. Why? Because every single pressurized system needs a relief valve. I believe that this is what dreams are to the human body‚ or‚ furthermore‚ to the human mind. They act like a dam and when the flood of the consciousness

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    Character Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe is a suspenseful short story. In the story the main character‚ the narrator‚ kills an old man. He only kills the old man because his eye troubles the narrator. Throughout the story‚ the narrator stalks the old man nightly‚ looking for his open eye and eventually kills the old man by suffocating him. He dismembers his body‚ and hid the parts under the floorboards. The police later come to the house

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    A Tale Tell Heart Analysis

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    Analysis of “The Tell Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe uses symbols‚ figures of speech‚ and the setting of the story in “The Tell Tale Heart” to reveal hidden morals and explain how the nameless‚ genderless‚ and ageless narrator felt while plotting and carrying out the murder of an old man. The narrator was driven crazy because of an old man’s vulture eye. He explained‚ “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man‚ and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe). Throughout the entire story‚ the

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    actions that are evident of a person suffering from mental illness‚ which can be attributed to paranoia. A person who experiences irrational fear and delusion has the potential to inflict hurt to himself as well as others. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is told from the perspective of the narrator who gives a personal account of a situation fueled by anxiety‚

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    There are two substantial settings in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. One is the old man shares a house with the narrator where the location and the murder take place from which the narrator tells the story. However‚ for the story‚ the most important setting is within the narrator’s mind where he is very obsessed with the old man. Well he isn’t obsessed with the old man‚ the source of his mysterious obsession is the old man evil eye and that infuriates the narrator because the old man is

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    A Tell-Tale Heart analysis

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    The tell-tale heart (1846) Edgar Allan Poe Intro: Definition of a ‘tell-tale’ = a gossip/er who tells things about others to get them into trouble Summary ‘A tell-tale heart’ (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe is told through a homodiegetic narrator‚ who is most likely the old man’s butler. He tries to convince himself and the reader that‚ although he confesses to have killed the old man with the pale‚ blue eye‚ he is not mad. Possible reasons for not giving details of the murder itself:

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    Tell Tale Heart Essay

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    "The Tell-Tale Heart" Although both versions of Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart" were equally entertaining‚ the cartoon version of the story is more effective in conveying the narrators insanity than the performance. There are multiple reasons why the cartoon was much more successful in expressing the narrators madness. Some of these reasons include the distinct sound effects‚ prominent facial expressions‚ outstanding computer effects and even the hinting at another hidden message in the

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