The whole entire nation was shocked in 2012, with the Sandy Hook shootings. Some people wonder if Adam Lanza, the shooter, was insane, which nobody knows for sure, but in the short story “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator was truly insane. The narrator mercilessly murders an old man that he loves. The narrator believes he can get away with the crime until the police show up and he confesses to the homicide. Edgar Allen Poe uses symbolism, repetition, and dialogue to show how he, Edgar Allen Poe, uses the old man’s eye to represent the narrator’s insanity. In the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe uses symbolism to show how the elderly man’s eye symbolizes the narrator’s psychopath behavior. Every single night
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Poe uses repetition to show how insanity represents the eye. Just before the narrator kills the old man he hears the “low, dull, quick, sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton”on pg 85. The narrator also says the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” increases as he stares at the old man’s eye. The narrator thinks the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” was the old man’s heartbeat. At the end, the readers learn the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” was actually the narrator’s own heartbeat. The old man’s eerie eye makes the narrator’s heart beat faster. When the cops came to talk to the narrator, because his neighbor heard something in the middle of the night, which was the old man’s wail right before he died. The police officers come in the morning and the narrator shows them the old man’s chamber and they sit on the chairs right on the floorboards, where the old man was buried underneath the floorboards. There the narrator hears the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.” His heart was beating so fast that he thought his heart was the old man’s heart. He thinks the cops could hear his heart, and confesses to the murder, by saying “Villains, dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-Tear up the planks-here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”, page 87.
Poe uses repetition to show how insanity represents the eye. Just before the narrator kills the old man he hears the “low, dull, quick, sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton”on pg 85. The narrator also says the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” increases as he stares at the old man’s eye. The narrator thinks the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” was the old man’s heartbeat. At the end, the readers learn the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” was actually the narrator’s own heartbeat. The old man’s eerie eye makes the narrator’s heart beat faster. When the cops came to talk to the narrator, because his neighbor heard something in the middle of the night, which was the old man’s wail right before he died. The police officers come in the morning and the narrator shows them the old man’s chamber and they sit on the chairs right on the floorboards, where the old man was buried underneath the floorboards. There the narrator hears the “low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.” His heart was beating so fast that he thought his heart was the old man’s heart. He thinks the cops could hear his heart, and confesses to the murder, by saying “Villains, dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-Tear up the planks-here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”, page 87.