Guilt In The Tell Tale Heart

In summation, throughout “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe personifies the narrator’s guilt as such a thing that slowly deteriorates the mind and opens a door to moral insanity. Between the lines of this Gothic tale Poe uses the continuous beating heart as a symbol for the narrator’s inescapable and eternal guilt. Once the narrator awakened the old man, the beating heart grew to such a volume that he had no choice but to kill him. However after committing the senseless crime the beating heart prevailed causing the narrator to go mad. Consequently, the sound forces the narrator to give himself up to the police because the guilt grew so strong that he could no longer bear for it to be on his conscience. The overall moral of this story certainly teaches