The Beating Heart
An Explication of Edgar Allen Poe's, "The Tell-Tale Heart"Literature and Advanced Writing 211-09 In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", It would appear that thespeaker has literally gotten away with murder. Mr. Poe cleverly reminds us thatthis is an insane man by allowing the speaker to become paranoid in the midst offeeling confident of the fact that he had fooled the police. In his paranoia hebelieves he is hearing a heart beat, and that the police are torturing him because "No doubt I now grew very pale:-but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased-and what could I do? It was a low,dull, quick sound-much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped incotton (par 16)." The speaker is getting very nervous and honestly believes he
Although there is no evidence in the text that the police aresuspicious, his behavior is enough to make anyone suspicious. All of the speaker's actions reinforces his insanity. "I arose andargued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noisesteadily increased. " Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Whether or not theofficers suspect him is not evidenced in the text or whether or not they couldhear the sounds that the speaker was hearing. Then he decides thatthey know that he killed the old. Again more evidence of paranoia,but herehe questions whether or not the police can this ringing. He not only admitsto the murder he shows the officer's where the body is buried. What's even more agonizing for him is this constant noise, almost as if the source of the noise was haunting him.
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