“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a Gothic fiction short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. “The
Tell-tale Heart” is told in first person by an unnamed man, who is unaware that he is insane but tries to prove that he is not by telling a murderous story about his past. The narrator shared quarters with the old man, whose pale eye irritated the narrator very much but who otherwise did not bother him. The film over the old man’s pale eye has caused the narrator to develop an obsession with the “Vulture Eye.” The unnamed man murders the old man within eight days and cuts the body into pieces in the hope of never seeing the eye again, and then deposits the body under the floor in the old man’s room. That night of the murder, police come to the quarters …show more content…
After having small talk with the police, the unnamed man starts to hear a ticking noise that becomes uncomfortably louder. The narrator thinks the police are messing with him and he confesses to the murder of the old man. The unnamed narrator states at the end that the ticking noise that he hears is from the old man’s heart from under the floor boards. Martinez 2 I have terrible memory and could not find the version of the movie we saw in class to watch again, so instead I watched the Ryan Shovey’s version on YouTube. Both the movie
(Shovey, The Tell-Tale Heart) and the story were very similar. One of the big differences I found was that in the movie narrator was writing about the event rather than speaking of it. In the movie, before stating that it was his eye, the old man asks the narrator to get the carriage ready. The story made me think that perhaps the old man was of bloodline to the narrator, but the movie implies that the narrator is the help. Key parts of the narrative were missing from the movies, such as the line “And this I did for seven long nights-every night before midnight” …show more content…
In the movie, the night the narrator decides to murder the old man, the depiction of Death’s shadow was literal, shown as it is mentioned in the book, as Death was approaching him, though only in the narrators head. In the movie, the narrator hits the old man with a lantern, though there is no mention of this detail in the short story, nor is there any mention ofdragging the old man’s body in the movie. In the movie he dismembers the body in a steel tub, but there in no mention of this in the original short story. In the movie the old man’s body parts are put into the living room floor by the fire place. In the story the old man’s body is hidden in the floor boards in the old man’s chambers. In the movie, the three officers are given names. In the story it is stated they introduce themselves properly but are never told of their names. Another difference between the story and the movie is that the narrator states in the movie that the old man is “gone for two weeks.” The narrator offers drinks to the officers, something not mentioned in the short story.
Lines of dialog were added to the movie that were not used in the story, such as the
Tell-tale Heart” is told in first person by an unnamed man, who is unaware that he is insane but tries to prove that he is not by telling a murderous story about his past. The narrator shared quarters with the old man, whose pale eye irritated the narrator very much but who otherwise did not bother him. The film over the old man’s pale eye has caused the narrator to develop an obsession with the “Vulture Eye.” The unnamed man murders the old man within eight days and cuts the body into pieces in the hope of never seeing the eye again, and then deposits the body under the floor in the old man’s room. That night of the murder, police come to the quarters …show more content…
After having small talk with the police, the unnamed man starts to hear a ticking noise that becomes uncomfortably louder. The narrator thinks the police are messing with him and he confesses to the murder of the old man. The unnamed narrator states at the end that the ticking noise that he hears is from the old man’s heart from under the floor boards. Martinez 2 I have terrible memory and could not find the version of the movie we saw in class to watch again, so instead I watched the Ryan Shovey’s version on YouTube. Both the movie
(Shovey, The Tell-Tale Heart) and the story were very similar. One of the big differences I found was that in the movie narrator was writing about the event rather than speaking of it. In the movie, before stating that it was his eye, the old man asks the narrator to get the carriage ready. The story made me think that perhaps the old man was of bloodline to the narrator, but the movie implies that the narrator is the help. Key parts of the narrative were missing from the movies, such as the line “And this I did for seven long nights-every night before midnight” …show more content…
In the movie, the night the narrator decides to murder the old man, the depiction of Death’s shadow was literal, shown as it is mentioned in the book, as Death was approaching him, though only in the narrators head. In the movie, the narrator hits the old man with a lantern, though there is no mention of this detail in the short story, nor is there any mention ofdragging the old man’s body in the movie. In the movie he dismembers the body in a steel tub, but there in no mention of this in the original short story. In the movie the old man’s body parts are put into the living room floor by the fire place. In the story the old man’s body is hidden in the floor boards in the old man’s chambers. In the movie, the three officers are given names. In the story it is stated they introduce themselves properly but are never told of their names. Another difference between the story and the movie is that the narrator states in the movie that the old man is “gone for two weeks.” The narrator offers drinks to the officers, something not mentioned in the short story.
Lines of dialog were added to the movie that were not used in the story, such as the