The Tell Tale Heart Research Paper
The Obsession Towards Evil
In his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe, creates an unreliable narrator shown through by his over-exaggerated statement and his loss of sanity from killing the innocent old man, because he suffers from a mental disorder called monomania. The narrator goes through a disease that sharpens his hearing senses and proclaims it as a benefit for himself. While declining the fact that he is a madman, the narrator calmly explains “I [hear] all things in the heaven and in the earth...I [hear] many things in hell” (Poe 92). His ability to determine that there is heaven and hell is questionable, on top of that, he can also hear things inside the earth. Thus, the readers can already feel the uncertainty of trusting
In his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe, creates an unreliable narrator shown through by his over-exaggerated statement and his loss of sanity from killing the innocent old man, because he suffers from a mental disorder called monomania. The narrator goes through a disease that sharpens his hearing senses and proclaims it as a benefit for himself. While declining the fact that he is a madman, the narrator calmly explains “I [hear] all things in the heaven and in the earth...I [hear] many things in hell” (Poe 92). His ability to determine that there is heaven and hell is questionable, on top of that, he can also hear things inside the earth. Thus, the readers can already feel the uncertainty of trusting