Shahd Gawdat
Rania Genena
English 11C
4th of December 2022
Literary analysis final draft
The Tell-Tale Heart
Have you ever gotten the chills from staring at someone’s eye for too
long? Edgar Allan Poe, the author of The Tell-Tale Heart wrote about
that exact feeling. The narrator, who is paranoid by the ye of the old man
he is helping, is planning to murder the ole man for his “vulture eye”. He
plans his murder precisely and watches the old man’s vulture eye for
seven nights and on the eighth night, he commits his crime. He hides the
body by cutting it up and eliminates all types of evidence. After the
cold-blooded murder, the police stop by and check out the house. At
first, the narrator is relaxed, but he starts getting paranoid again and
claims he hears the man’s heartbeat and confesses he killed the old man
to the police. In his short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
showcases the themes of madness, guilt, and death through imagery,
symbolism, and point of view.
The theme of madness and sanity is portrayed clearly throughout the
story. “IT’S TRUE! YES, I HAVE BEEN ILL, very ill. But why do say
that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say I am mad? Can you
not see that I have full control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not
mad?” (Poe 64). In the quote above, the theme of madness and sanity is
portrayed at the beginning of the story by the narrator stating to the
readers that he is not mad or mentally ill when he is clearly out of his
mind. this quote foreshadows the following events of the story. The
author uses imagery to get the reader’s imagination working on how the
Rania Genena
English 11C
4th of December 2022
Literary analysis final draft
The Tell-Tale Heart
Have you ever gotten the chills from staring at someone’s eye for too
long? Edgar Allan Poe, the author of The Tell-Tale Heart wrote about
that exact feeling. The narrator, who is paranoid by the ye of the old man
he is helping, is planning to murder the ole man for his “vulture eye”. He
plans his murder precisely and watches the old man’s vulture eye for
seven nights and on the eighth night, he commits his crime. He hides the
body by cutting it up and eliminates all types of evidence. After the
cold-blooded murder, the police stop by and check out the house. At
first, the narrator is relaxed, but he starts getting paranoid again and
claims he hears the man’s heartbeat and confesses he killed the old man
to the police. In his short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
showcases the themes of madness, guilt, and death through imagery,
symbolism, and point of view.
The theme of madness and sanity is portrayed clearly throughout the
story. “IT’S TRUE! YES, I HAVE BEEN ILL, very ill. But why do say
that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say I am mad? Can you
not see that I have full control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not
mad?” (Poe 64). In the quote above, the theme of madness and sanity is
portrayed at the beginning of the story by the narrator stating to the
readers that he is not mad or mentally ill when he is clearly out of his
mind. this quote foreshadows the following events of the story. The
author uses imagery to get the reader’s imagination working on how the
