Indirect Characterization
In the excerpt “From the Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe creates the mysterious character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of the characters actions, internal thoughts and motivation. Poe unravels a story about motivations and actions and reveals how some people's motivations and actions aren't always used for good.
One way that indirect characterization reveals the theme is through the actions of the character. In the story the narrator-- portrayed as the murderer as well-- murders an old man who, we are told, was living in the narrator’s house for a while. The narrator
In the excerpt “From the Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe creates the mysterious character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of the characters actions, internal thoughts and motivation. Poe unravels a story about motivations and actions and reveals how some people's motivations and actions aren't always used for good.
One way that indirect characterization reveals the theme is through the actions of the character. In the story the narrator-- portrayed as the murderer as well-- murders an old man who, we are told, was living in the narrator’s house for a while. The narrator