Essay For The Tell-Tale Heart
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Introduction to English Literature, Wed 34
Professor:馬健君
Paper1: Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統，不要學)
Oct, 21, 2009
Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統，不要學) This story is described from the murderer. He talks about the process how he killed the old man. The name of The Tell-Tale Heart gives the hint for what will happen next and the heart will do something startled. Using the name can make reader interested in knowing what the story will go. In the beginning, the murderer doesn’t think he has committed the crime. And he tries to convince reader to believe what he did is right. In the story, the author describes what the murderer feels in the whole story. His mood goes from excitement to confidence to guilt and …show more content…
It successfully makes the story attract readers. The author uses murderer’s viewpoint to write down the story. Using this viewpoint can let readers know what the murderer thinks in his heart and how he thinks about the case and how he thinks about the old man he has killed. The viewpoint can turn into old man’s. This can make everyone know the old man’s fear, thinking, and feeling to a strange atmosphere around him recently. After he has been killed, he can show readers his anger, his unwillingness, and his aim to force the murderer to confess his crime …show more content…
It may be male, because males tend to be aggressive and mean. However, females are more sympathetic and not mean enough. The process of killing the old man is described very detailed and precise, so it real makes the story very practical. And readers can really feels the fear the author wants to gives. Edgar Allan Poe has written about many horror novels. The theme of this story might be guilt or madness. The Tell-Tale Heart can compare with The Black cat, Poe’s another story. They both have sick people; they hide the person who is killed in the house; they want to pretend nothing happened to lie the police, and they at length confess the crime.
The corpse invariably symbolizes some flawed portion of the narrator's personality, and the house represents the narrator himself. Burying the corpse within the house represents the narrator's attempt to bury his flaws rather than dealing with them. This burial always leads to the narrator's downfall in Poe's stories, because the narrator has failed to deal with his problem, and so it resurfaces later on. The madmen in Poe's stories are usually
Introduction to English Literature, Wed 34
Professor:馬健君
Paper1: Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統，不要學)
Oct, 21, 2009
Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統，不要學) This story is described from the murderer. He talks about the process how he killed the old man. The name of The Tell-Tale Heart gives the hint for what will happen next and the heart will do something startled. Using the name can make reader interested in knowing what the story will go. In the beginning, the murderer doesn’t think he has committed the crime. And he tries to convince reader to believe what he did is right. In the story, the author describes what the murderer feels in the whole story. His mood goes from excitement to confidence to guilt and …show more content…
It successfully makes the story attract readers. The author uses murderer’s viewpoint to write down the story. Using this viewpoint can let readers know what the murderer thinks in his heart and how he thinks about the case and how he thinks about the old man he has killed. The viewpoint can turn into old man’s. This can make everyone know the old man’s fear, thinking, and feeling to a strange atmosphere around him recently. After he has been killed, he can show readers his anger, his unwillingness, and his aim to force the murderer to confess his crime …show more content…
It may be male, because males tend to be aggressive and mean. However, females are more sympathetic and not mean enough. The process of killing the old man is described very detailed and precise, so it real makes the story very practical. And readers can really feels the fear the author wants to gives. Edgar Allan Poe has written about many horror novels. The theme of this story might be guilt or madness. The Tell-Tale Heart can compare with The Black cat, Poe’s another story. They both have sick people; they hide the person who is killed in the house; they want to pretend nothing happened to lie the police, and they at length confess the crime.
The corpse invariably symbolizes some flawed portion of the narrator's personality, and the house represents the narrator himself. Burying the corpse within the house represents the narrator's attempt to bury his flaws rather than dealing with them. This burial always leads to the narrator's downfall in Poe's stories, because the narrator has failed to deal with his problem, and so it resurfaces later on. The madmen in Poe's stories are usually