Body Parts In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

In the story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator seems to have negative relationships with body parts. The old man’s eye, one of the body parts, freaks out the narrator. This could be for many possible reasons. Also, the heart that he hears beating, even though realistically it would never be beating if the person were dead, makes him feel uncomfortable. This incorporates the genre of Horror Fiction and how body parts are an important trope in this story to develop the traits to be in this category. The “evil” eye and the beating heart are very important factors in showing how body parts are an important trope in developing stories by Poe. Throughout the history of horror fiction there have been many things involved in creating this genre, one of them being body parts. There have been so many gory, disgusting, and mind-boggling descriptions of arms being torn off living bodies, people getting tortured, and simply just like in this story of a creepy eye and beating heart from a dead body. “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye, …show more content…
He had never wronged me”(Poe 37). Maybe he really did wrong her and that’s all she could look at when she was getting assaulted was the eye, therefore the eye disgusts her so much. Nobody in their right mind would say that he never wronged them but still want to kill him. It’s just not logical. Also, maybe what the narrator considers right may be wrong for someone else, and vice versa. The “wrong” could be perceived in many different ways. The “evil” eye caused the narrator to do things that were unspeakable and clearly he/she had a madness that was not explained. After the narrator killed the old man because of the “evil” eye, he suffered from the haunting of the