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Analysis Of Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart" - Term Papers

Analysis Of Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart"



Edgar Allen Poe's story "A Tell Tale Heart," has the protagonist
obsessed with an old man's eye. This obsession causes a conflict between
the protagonist and his sanity. This eye eventually drove him t commit
murder to rid the eye. The narrator's conflict increases as he plots the
murder, commits the murder and finally after the murder.
This eye is a very obsessive eye. It has the capability to drive an
ordinary person to insanity, which is what happens to the protagonist. It
is not the old man that the he is obsessed with, it is the old man's one
eye. The protagonist's obsession is because of the eye's look of evilness.
The narrator claims he is not mad nor crazy because of his ...

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sees the evil eye. The narrator's obsession is becoming
more furious. Then, already furious the protagonist hears a heartbeat. It
was a sound that, "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This was the
old man's heartbeat and it increased the protagonist's fury. Now the
narrator is full of fury. He also had an uncontrollable feeling of triumph
and power. The narrator under all this confidence, triumph and fury, barged
in to the room. Scaring the old man, the protagonist put him to the floor
and pulled the bed over him. The protagonist could still hear the heartbeat
but only for a moment as it died down. The deed was done. The evil eye
would no longer trouble the narrator for it had been destroyed. All that
there was left to do was to hide the corpse.
After the murder the protagonist wisely disposed the corpse and
continued on with his sanity………or to say. The narrator had cut off the arms
and legs of the body and placed the pieces between the scantlings in the
chamber ...

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Added: 2/1/2007 11:54:59 PM
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