Levels Of Tension In The Tell Tale Heart

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do something about it. Now that the tension has started to build up more you'd probably think something is going to happen to the old man. ``For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.'' By putting upper case letters to describe the eyes, it's as if he were referring to it as a separate thing.

Just when you think the narrator can't get any creepier he starts to explain how every night of the week he looks into the old man's room very carefully trying not to wake him up but also hoping to see the eye. ``Oh you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly - very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep.'' How much effort he puts in opening the door is quite weird, he is obsessed and it's getting quite scary because everyday he seems to be getting crazier and crazier just waiting for that eye to drive him mad enough. Here the tension is taking a big incline because you can tell he is starting to get impatient and more ...

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poor old man. ``In an instant I dragged him to the floor and pulled the heavy bed over him.'' The tension is at the highest point now that he's been killed and you start to wonder if he's going to get away with it or get caught.

Proud of himself after killing the old man and his vulture eye he feels no guilt, no sadness nor terror. All he felt was left for him to do was hide the body. The best idea that came to his mind was chopping up the body and so proudly and silently he dismembered the old mans dead body ``I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.'' Normal people would never think or even go through with doing such a thing, this just proves that he really is mad no matter ...

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