Essays on The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor and literary critique. He is best known for his poems and short stories such as “the Raven” and “Annabell Lee” Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in June 1809 and passed away in October of 1949. In this essay, two texts will be analysed and...

‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ utilizes an inconsistent storyteller. The precision with which the storyteller describes killing the elderly person, as though the stealthy manner by which they did the wrongdoing were confirmation of their mental soundness, shows their monomania and neurosis. The focal point of consideration of the story is the unreasonable plan to perpetrate the...

Insane, by definition, means in a state of mind which prohibits usual perception, behavior, or social interactions (Oxford). The narrator of “Tell Tale Heart” killed an old man he loved because of the man’s eye. When the police came, the narrator could “hear” the old man’s heartbeat, which drove the narrator into confessing that he...