Shadows In The Tell Tale Heart

Shadows cast upon everything when the sun shines. Like the evil side of a human, the shadow never leaves this world. Everyone consists of a dark side. When contemplating the short story, ‘Tell Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe, the dark side envelopes the narrator. His own consciousness reveals a state of madness, of pure evil. Through his thoughts, actions, and eventually his own conscious, the shadows Clearly have the narrator I thief grasp in their grasp. The unnamed narrator plots a horrid plan in his crazed mind. He seems a kindred spirit, kindly serving his master, yet inwardly he shudders every time he glances at the vulture eye. The narrator makes it obvious his plans to rid himself of the man, “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night….He had the eye of a vulture...Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man…”. The despicable eye spawned the plan to remove the man from this earth. The shadows have now crept into his mind, now the man must take action. The actions of the narrator speak the loudest. With …show more content…
This, however, did not vex me;...At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. His eve would trouble me no more.”.“First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.”. This is cruelty at its finest. Consequently, the police arrive to investigate a scream that came from the home of the man. Will this cruel narrator, notwithstanding the shadows, escape from the