Summary Of Edgar Allan Poe's The Red-Tale Heart

The main idea for my short story began with a very simplistic and basic colour idea which led to the slow development of two main characters named Red and Blue. The idea flourished from the very basic idea to a slightly more complex one when the idea that Red would be colourless and unidentified in his world. Red was clear and transparent and weakly searching for a colour and was not able to feel complete until he met Blue. With Blue he grew to have slight tinges of colour, and it made him feel strong and powerful. Eventually, Red found a way to maintain the actual colour red, but began to become greedy. Red’s greed begun the beginning of the end, not only for him, but Blue and all other colours in the world they lived in.
The original concept behind the short story was going to be that Red and Blue were two sides of one person, with Blue signifying strength and love and Red signifying the doubtful, insecure and fearful half of the human mind. The original concept developed to be that Red would demonstrate
I was particularly inspired by his short story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. After reading that specific work, I felt quite shocked as I could feel his character’s personality, tone and feelings. It felt like I was just in the mind of a schizophrenic killer, and the way Poe had written the story had me immersed completely. I want the readers of my text to become completely immersed into my writing and go through an ‘out of body’ experience like one would if they were having a dissociative episode. I want the readers to step out of the world they are in now and go somewhere else, and when the story finishes I want the audience to feel the way my characters experience feelings of depersonalisation and derealisation before they return to reality and start questioning human ways of thinking and