Central Ideas In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the two main central ideas has structural and point of View evidence. Through his point of view, the narrator relates how he is feeling about the murder plan and his own terror. Poe uses punctuation to show that the narrator is anxious that his murder plans are going to happen. The two main central ideas are madness and obsession. Madness is the main central idea because their is a lot of structural and point of view evidence. In “The Tell- Tale Heart” this man keeps tells us that he is not mad he is just nervous. “I undid the lantern cautiously- oh, so cautiously- cautiously” which show how he is sneaky and careful on how he does things. The narrator also says in the very beginning “TRUE! --nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? This shows the punctuations and the repetition that is used, demonstrates that he is saying his words very fast and that he is anxious about something. He also says “And now a new anxiety seized me- the sound would be heard by a neighbor! The old man’s hour had come!” All the punctuations show that the narrator is …show more content…
“Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me.” The narrator’s point is that he keep claiming that he is not mad. Also the narrator says “Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in!” which demonstrates that he is very sneaky and crafty. “ Deepening with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me” which shows that he is encountering terror as well. In “The Tell- Tale Heart” Poe develops the central idea of madness by using repetition by how the narrator cautiously plans the old man’s death. Poe uses punctuation and repetition to show how anxious, cautions, and sneaky he is. The point of view evidence keeps showing himself repeating that he is not mad when really he