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There are two conflicts that occur with the story: internal and external. The internal conflict is the narrator’s guilt over killing the old man forces him to believe that he hears the dead man’s heart beating. “I talked more quickly—more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased.”. Ones owns conscience can only take so much before the person breaks down. “Oh God! What could I do? I foamed—I raved—I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased.”
The external conflict is the eye itself; the narrator feels that the old man’s eye is always watching him in turn
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He does not seem to be caring, yet he does state he loved the old man. We must fight the urge and accept it fully, to be excepted and considered normal. ” This also gives us the reader the hint of him being mad. “If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.
The emotional feeling of the narrator are those of the depressed. Emotions are those not to be put aside or forgotten about. Either it be good or bad like the narrators feelings towards the old man’s eye.
Ones own subconscious mind could create emotions that can persuade one to do deeds in which he/she never thought of. ” A madman can only take so much when he fixated on an eye. The fact that the narrator was way too overly patient and dedicated to stalking the old man night after night, at midnight, seven days before he decides to commit his evil deed. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. ” The narrator keeps implying that he is very, very dreadfully nervous. makes him think he can read his mind. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.
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