The Tell Tale Heart Evaluation Essay
Evaluation Essay
The current essay focuses upon one of the shortest and interesting stories of Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ written in the year 1843. In this story, the writer develops the theme of the mystery of human consciousness, using specific motifs and artistic techniques, mentioned in previously written stories.
The meaning of the literary work is to impress the reader by forcing him to experience the scary feelings while reading the stories of Edgar Poe. The vivid example of the implementation of the principle of the aesthetic Poe’s effect is the story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. The effect of the ‘terrible’ is the main purpose of the story. The characters of the story experience the horror, and, as a result, the readers feel …show more content…
The place and time of action are not mentioned in the story. Moreover, time in the story has any historical plan. In a psychological sense, space and time are the same in the story. Psychological isolation becomes the main space-time characteristic of the story. The lack of external parts in the story and the overall dark coloring of the story give the impression of mystery: ‘His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness’. This contributes to the favorite writers’ approach of light receiving contrast and darkness in which the light is only a weak flashlight. In addition, the writer uses different stylistic means in order to create an ominous atmosphere in the story. He achieves by choosing words with the semantics of darkness, death, fear and terror appearing on the story. First of all, these are the words ‘terror’, ‘fear’, ‘death’, and the metaphors – ‘the tell-tale heart’, ‘the death-watches’, ‘the groan of mortal terror’. The verbs used in the text, also have the semantics of anxiety, terror and fear: ‘haunted’, ‘shrieked’, ‘stalked’, ‘killed’, ‘vexed’, ‘suspect’, etc. All of these expressions mostly describe the unstable mental, physical, and psycho-emotional state of the character. From the beginning of the story, a reader notices the creation of the emotional and intonation atmosphere of nervous
The current essay focuses upon one of the shortest and interesting stories of Edgar Allan Poe ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ written in the year 1843. In this story, the writer develops the theme of the mystery of human consciousness, using specific motifs and artistic techniques, mentioned in previously written stories.
The meaning of the literary work is to impress the reader by forcing him to experience the scary feelings while reading the stories of Edgar Poe. The vivid example of the implementation of the principle of the aesthetic Poe’s effect is the story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. The effect of the ‘terrible’ is the main purpose of the story. The characters of the story experience the horror, and, as a result, the readers feel …show more content…
The place and time of action are not mentioned in the story. Moreover, time in the story has any historical plan. In a psychological sense, space and time are the same in the story. Psychological isolation becomes the main space-time characteristic of the story. The lack of external parts in the story and the overall dark coloring of the story give the impression of mystery: ‘His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness’. This contributes to the favorite writers’ approach of light receiving contrast and darkness in which the light is only a weak flashlight. In addition, the writer uses different stylistic means in order to create an ominous atmosphere in the story. He achieves by choosing words with the semantics of darkness, death, fear and terror appearing on the story. First of all, these are the words ‘terror’, ‘fear’, ‘death’, and the metaphors – ‘the tell-tale heart’, ‘the death-watches’, ‘the groan of mortal terror’. The verbs used in the text, also have the semantics of anxiety, terror and fear: ‘haunted’, ‘shrieked’, ‘stalked’, ‘killed’, ‘vexed’, ‘suspect’, etc. All of these expressions mostly describe the unstable mental, physical, and psycho-emotional state of the character. From the beginning of the story, a reader notices the creation of the emotional and intonation atmosphere of nervous