tall tale heart
Tell-Tale Heart
Has something you have done ever came back to haunt you? Even if you try to forget about what you did; it may still be in the back of your head reminding you every single day of what you have done. Be Careful because it may come back to destroy you, just as it did in Edgar Allan Poe’s story Tell-Tale Heart. In the story a character will commit a horrific act that will come back to haunt him and his conscience; and eventually lead to his own destruction. Edgar Allan Poe provides a story to the reader that I believe can be a human feeling of guilt or a guilty conscience. Our main character, the old man’s caretaker, already begins to conceive a guilty conscience at the beginning of the story. In the story it says “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” and “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” As you can see the character has not yet committed the crime but is already feeling bothered by just the thought of it. The thought is consumed by his conscience .
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For eight days the protagonist experiences the terror of the old mans “evil” eye. Although he is just watching the eye he is feeling horror and terror every night as he is peeking in the elderly mans room. On the fifth page of the short story, it says “Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well!” As he spies on the old man he is feeling scared and frightened as well as guilty by just looking at the man. After the insane character has committed the crime of killing the innocent old man, he cuts off his head, arms and legs and deposited them all between the scantlings. The character still yet claims that his is not insane. In the story it says “ My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still
Has something you have done ever came back to haunt you? Even if you try to forget about what you did; it may still be in the back of your head reminding you every single day of what you have done. Be Careful because it may come back to destroy you, just as it did in Edgar Allan Poe’s story Tell-Tale Heart. In the story a character will commit a horrific act that will come back to haunt him and his conscience; and eventually lead to his own destruction. Edgar Allan Poe provides a story to the reader that I believe can be a human feeling of guilt or a guilty conscience. Our main character, the old man’s caretaker, already begins to conceive a guilty conscience at the beginning of the story. In the story it says “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” and “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” As you can see the character has not yet committed the crime but is already feeling bothered by just the thought of it. The thought is consumed by his conscience .
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For eight days the protagonist experiences the terror of the old mans “evil” eye. Although he is just watching the eye he is feeling horror and terror every night as he is peeking in the elderly mans room. On the fifth page of the short story, it says “Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well!” As he spies on the old man he is feeling scared and frightened as well as guilty by just looking at the man. After the insane character has committed the crime of killing the innocent old man, he cuts off his head, arms and legs and deposited them all between the scantlings. The character still yet claims that his is not insane. In the story it says “ My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still