Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
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This is a 5 page tutorial text paper analyzing Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843). Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) includes all of the elements required by Poe to make a complete short story. The tale contains the elements of terror felt by the narrator, his madness and his killing of the old man, along with the terror felt by the old man, the narrator’s eventual guilt, madness and future of terror. Poe does not waste words in the telling of the tale but still manages to include symbolic and ironic aspects which create a full text. The main ironic factor is that as the narrator introduces the tale stating that he can not be insane and then tells his tale to prove so; as the story is revealed, the reader is more and more convinced the narrator is insane. Overall the tale is effective in its elements of terror and madness.
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