Cricital analysis Point of View Edgar allan poe
Imagine the sight of an old man's eye, vulturous, pale blue, with a film covering it. Could this drive one's self so insane that one would murder a man because of it? This is the event that occurs in Edgar Allen Poe's vivid tale The Tell-Tale Heart. The story is a recount of events that have already taken place and is being told by a nameless narrator. Poe does not even go into detail as to what sex the narrator is. The only detail we get about the narrator is of the actions he is taking in the story, "...With what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!"(Poe, 36) The narrator even takes into consideration that you consider him insane right from the start in the 3rd paragraph. "You fancy me mad,"(Poe, 36) from here he tells the story as if he is trying to justify his actions to you. Poe gives little detail to either, of the main characters in the story because neither are the main focus of the story. Poe uses the point of view from a mad man with wonderful detail added to the suspense of the story.
Then Poe switches to a non-descriptive version of time. With the story leading the reader to believe that the narrator is insane from the 1st couple of lines of the story, the foreshadowing of events leaves the reader to a sense of dread since he knows what will happen "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him," (Poe, 36) yet the reader does not know what will happen up to that point. It is at this moment that he finally stops and thinks that the officers do hear the noise and are just tormenting him. The old man looses his life and the narrator looses his sanity. The main thing that leads to this is that the story is told in a slow motion sense. This is the end of the internal struggle for the narrator who has finally been pushed over the edge. Oh God! What could I do? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men-but the noise steadily increased. " "The disease had sharpened my senses- not destroyed, not dulled them. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!""(Poe, 36) At the end of the story it becomes an internal struggle for the protagonist/narrator. He decides anything is better the putting up with the horror he is going through now. We can also gather that the speaker is not that reliable of a narrator, for the story in the 1st couple of paragraphs he states that he has a "disease bemused to be insanity.
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