In Edgar Allan Poe story “The Tell Tale Heart” Poe was perhaps trying to show that even the craziest person can show signs of remorse. The story takes place mainly in an old man’s room at night. The killer studied the old man’s habits for several nights, he knew his surroundings. The old man did nothing wrong he just had this estrange eye which made the killer infuriated. He decided to take care of it. The old man is seen as the antagonist of this story, since the killer is the protagonist of this story. Although the old man can’t control his eye appearance, this is clearly an obstacle for the protagonist in his life. In Edgar Allan Poe 's the tell tale heart the old man drives the protagonist to commit murder because of the appearance of his
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“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night” (767). The conflict between them makes the killer go through significant mental ups and downs. He goes several nights to the old man’s room to see how his plan would be carried.
It may be unexpected for the old man to be the antagonist of the story since he has done nothing wrong to the protagonist of the story. After several nights of breaking into the old man 's room the killer felt more secure about it. But he could not kill the man “…but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye” (767). Since the eye is the one haunting the killer so killing the man with his eyes closed was simply not the right moment to do it.
On the eight night the killer returns at midnight to break into the old man 's room. He follow the same procedure as he did in the past seven nights. Everything seem to be exactly the same he pushed the door with quietly and steadily, "I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the thin fastening, the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out - Who 's there?"(768). Perchance the killer did it on purpose, he needed the old man to wake up and open the eye, which would give him the courage and the motive to finally get rid of what is …show more content…
"If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs" (769). He is surely gone completely crazy, in some level he know that what he did was wrong because otherwise he would not be doing everything with such precautions. " I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye --not even his... I had been too wary for that" when he finish it was already four o 'clock and the night was still pitch
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night” (767). The conflict between them makes the killer go through significant mental ups and downs. He goes several nights to the old man’s room to see how his plan would be carried.
It may be unexpected for the old man to be the antagonist of the story since he has done nothing wrong to the protagonist of the story. After several nights of breaking into the old man 's room the killer felt more secure about it. But he could not kill the man “…but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye” (767). Since the eye is the one haunting the killer so killing the man with his eyes closed was simply not the right moment to do it.
On the eight night the killer returns at midnight to break into the old man 's room. He follow the same procedure as he did in the past seven nights. Everything seem to be exactly the same he pushed the door with quietly and steadily, "I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the thin fastening, the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out - Who 's there?"(768). Perchance the killer did it on purpose, he needed the old man to wake up and open the eye, which would give him the courage and the motive to finally get rid of what is …show more content…
"If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs" (769). He is surely gone completely crazy, in some level he know that what he did was wrong because otherwise he would not be doing everything with such precautions. " I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye --not even his... I had been too wary for that" when he finish it was already four o 'clock and the night was still pitch