In this story we encounter a man attempting to tell us his side of a story, but we immediately begin to realize the man may not be the most reliable narrator. As the story unfolds before us we begin to see the narrator's accounting is fraught with leaps in logic and rampant paranoia, but it is not long until the deeds of the narrator catch up to him. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", we see the effect of guilt upon the conscience; even with the narrator's tenuous grasp of reality, the guilt of taking another human's life is too much to bare.
(Irony) As we jump into the story we receive the tale from the narrator's point of view. We see almost from the start the man may be mentally ill. He begins by telling us that he is not mad …show more content…
He is quick to try and convince us that he did not hate the old man, but his evil eye. They eye comes to represent the evil hidden things in the narrator's own mind. We see this in how the narrator sees the eye, "... like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it." (Poe) The narrator fixates on this and decides he must, "… close that eye forever!" (Poe) We also see the narrator's loose grasp of reality as he separates the old man from the eye in his mind. This allows the narrator to justify his future deed of destroying the eye by murdering the old …show more content…
The old man having awakened waits in the darkness knowing that someone is present. The narrator now shines his light upon the old man's eye. We then experience the first accusatory beats of the heart. The beating of the heart grows louder until the narrator feels he must act. Fixated on the eye the narrator choses to attack; falling on the old man like a vulture and tearing him to pieces. The act furthers the narrators decent into madness, and denial of such, as he describes with how much care was used as he dismembered the man and hid him under the floor. So proud of the work he has done, we see a manic side to the narrator's
(Irony) As we jump into the story we receive the tale from the narrator's point of view. We see almost from the start the man may be mentally ill. He begins by telling us that he is not mad …show more content…
He is quick to try and convince us that he did not hate the old man, but his evil eye. They eye comes to represent the evil hidden things in the narrator's own mind. We see this in how the narrator sees the eye, "... like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it." (Poe) The narrator fixates on this and decides he must, "… close that eye forever!" (Poe) We also see the narrator's loose grasp of reality as he separates the old man from the eye in his mind. This allows the narrator to justify his future deed of destroying the eye by murdering the old …show more content…
The old man having awakened waits in the darkness knowing that someone is present. The narrator now shines his light upon the old man's eye. We then experience the first accusatory beats of the heart. The beating of the heart grows louder until the narrator feels he must act. Fixated on the eye the narrator choses to attack; falling on the old man like a vulture and tearing him to pieces. The act furthers the narrators decent into madness, and denial of such, as he describes with how much care was used as he dismembered the man and hid him under the floor. So proud of the work he has done, we see a manic side to the narrator's