Cricital analysis Point of View Edgar allan poe
Imagine the sight of an old man's eye, vulturous, pale blue, with a film covering it. Could this drive one's self so insane that one would murder a man because of it? This is the event that occurs in Edgar Allen Poe's vivid tale The Tell-Tale Heart. The story is a recount of events that have already taken place and is being told by a nameless narrator. Poe does not even go into detail as to what sex the narrator is. The only detail we get about the narrator is of the actions he is taking in the story, "...With what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!"(Poe, 36) The narrator even takes into consideration that you consider him insane right from the start in the 3rd paragraph. "You fancy me mad,"(Poe, 36) from here he tells the story as if he is trying to justify his actions to you. Poe gives little detail to either, of the main characters in the story because neither are the main focus of the story. Poe uses the point of view from a mad man with wonderful detail added to the suspense of the story.
Here the narrator struggles to discern why the officers are not reacting to the sound that only he hears. For a moment he almost realizes that they do not hear it. It is at this moment that he finally stops and thinks that the officers do hear the noise and are just tormenting him. He decides anything is better the putting up with the horror he is going through now. This is the end of the internal struggle for the narrator who has finally been pushed over the edge. Poe does a wonderful job at leaving the reader in suspense for the whole story. The main thing that leads to this is that the story is told in a slow motion sense. The narrator uses word time spans that readers can recognize like "minutes" or "an hour". Then Poe switches to a non-descriptive version of time. "When I had waited a long time, very patiently."(Poe, 36) He no longer gives a description of how much time has passed since the last action. Poe uses his narrator to describe two confrontations in this story, the narrator vs. the old man and the narrator vs. his own sa
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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