Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

The horror genre doesn't always portray monsters as antagonists,according to the criteria of horror set up by retried film professor and horror enthusiast,Sharon A.Russell.It's the story being told,it's setting,as well as the suspense building up around it.In Addition,Edgar Allen Poe's 'Tell-Tale Heart',is how a man strives to prove he's not insane,by cunningly killing an old man.Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates the critica of horror through 'The Tell-Tale Heart',using descriptive language,depicting the characters,and a complex plot. To begin with,language is what brought this story and it's characters to life.The language Edgar A. Poe used was linked to the narrator's mental state.Often, imagery is used to describe the coldness behind the crimes he committed.The old man's eye was his trigger,the narrator's fear,as descriptive language was used for describing the old man's vulture-like eye.More as the story unfolds,the more twisted logic the narrator states,revealing his insanity.At first,his tone was calm and logical,that turned into …show more content…
The narrator then proceeded to hide the body parts under loose floorboards.However,when the policemen arrived and conversed,the beating of the old man's heart grew louder and louder,that drove the narrator to his emotional breakdown,by confessing to the crime.The sound of heartbeats was metaphorically linked to the sound of inner guilt of the narrator's