“TRUE!!!--nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am: but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed-- not dulled them.” This story tells of a narrator struggling with mental illness and perverseness, leading to a great deal of guilt and fear. He also conflicts against the old man with an “eye of a vulture” that causes the climax. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allen Poe uses three literary devices to mainly express the narrator’s conflict throughout the story. The three literary devices are symbolism, simile, and conflict. One can see that because all are perverse, allowing fear and guilt to control your choices will lead you to the wrong path.
Poe uses symbolism to express his fear, guilt, …show more content…
The conflict is what causes the narrator to go insane and express his feelings by trying to kill the old man and simply and physically rid of its existence. In the exposition, the narrator intends to murder the old man and has nightmares about what he plans to do at midnight. The old man’s eye urges the narrator to rid of it. The idea of it haunted him enough until he couldn’t stand being “stalked” and “disturbed,” but he wasn’t really prey. He first expresses how “it is impossible to say how the idea first entered my brain: but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” (Poe 2) Self conflict involves the narrator’s evil side instantly and directly in the exposition of the story to show how he is affected by the old man. It helps to show their relationship towards each other and what they are imagining or what’s really happening. This interprets the main plot and climax of the story to describe difficulties occurring within the plot and the characters. As a result, self conflict helps to point out the main characters’ struggles within themselves personally, as well as in reality. This leads to Poe’s final transition. Poe’s overall message states that all people are perverse and struggle with self
Poe uses symbolism to express his fear, guilt, …show more content…
The conflict is what causes the narrator to go insane and express his feelings by trying to kill the old man and simply and physically rid of its existence. In the exposition, the narrator intends to murder the old man and has nightmares about what he plans to do at midnight. The old man’s eye urges the narrator to rid of it. The idea of it haunted him enough until he couldn’t stand being “stalked” and “disturbed,” but he wasn’t really prey. He first expresses how “it is impossible to say how the idea first entered my brain: but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” (Poe 2) Self conflict involves the narrator’s evil side instantly and directly in the exposition of the story to show how he is affected by the old man. It helps to show their relationship towards each other and what they are imagining or what’s really happening. This interprets the main plot and climax of the story to describe difficulties occurring within the plot and the characters. As a result, self conflict helps to point out the main characters’ struggles within themselves personally, as well as in reality. This leads to Poe’s final transition. Poe’s overall message states that all people are perverse and struggle with self