The thing that caught my eye the most in The Tell-Tale Heart is the constant use of repetition of adverbs and adjectives to not only intensify the occurrence but to place and draw the reader deeper in the mad mind of the narrator. The narrator is carefully planning the murder of the old man that he felt had an evil eye, the reality of the eye being evil and being the eye of vulture is not the focus of the story, we follow the narrator's logic and perception. The reader is made aware of the narrator’s unstable mind through the use of repetition throughout the entire story that intensifies his paranoia and nervousness and being scared of the old man's eye to the point of killing him for it even though the man never did anything wrong to him.
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By repeating certain adverbs and adding other adjectives adds to the drama and makes it more intense and suspenseful, his paranoia adds to the stress and anxiety that the narrator is feeling; for example poe could've easily written “Very cautiously” instead of “cautiously-oh, so cautiously —cautiously” to get his point across, But by repeating certain words over and over again the author creates a situation that is much more stressful, horrid and cruel.
These repetitions bring the reader and the narrator much closer together because the reader intensely feels what the narrator is going through and how he is trying to justify his actions by repeating adjectives such as “wide” in “It was open --wide, wide open.” if it wasn't for this, the reader wouldn't be convinced of what the narrator is trying to justify and make sense of. Moreover, by repeating certain words the reader can’t help but to sympathize with the killer and question his (in)sanity. it creates an anxiety and paranoia which requires a hasty action and Poe took this concept and implement it very well in the story to a point it becomes the primary force at engaging the reader with how the narrator is feeling during the course of the
By repeating certain adverbs and adding other adjectives adds to the drama and makes it more intense and suspenseful, his paranoia adds to the stress and anxiety that the narrator is feeling; for example poe could've easily written “Very cautiously” instead of “cautiously-oh, so cautiously —cautiously” to get his point across, But by repeating certain words over and over again the author creates a situation that is much more stressful, horrid and cruel.
These repetitions bring the reader and the narrator much closer together because the reader intensely feels what the narrator is going through and how he is trying to justify his actions by repeating adjectives such as “wide” in “It was open --wide, wide open.” if it wasn't for this, the reader wouldn't be convinced of what the narrator is trying to justify and make sense of. Moreover, by repeating certain words the reader can’t help but to sympathize with the killer and question his (in)sanity. it creates an anxiety and paranoia which requires a hasty action and Poe took this concept and implement it very well in the story to a point it becomes the primary force at engaging the reader with how the narrator is feeling during the course of the