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The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" becomes obsessed with the young man's "vulture eye" and ultimately murders him to rid himself of it.
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is unreliable, obsessed, and has a distorted sense of reality. He is consumed by the old man's eye and his guilt manifests in his heightened sensitivity to sound. His unraveling mental state ultimately leads to his confession of the murder.
The narrator
Narrator
The main character in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is an unnamed narrator who is obsessed with the idea that an old man's eye is evil. The old man is also a central character as he is the victim of the narrator's obsession and eventual crime.
The narrator keeps insisting that he is not mad in "The Tell-Tale Heart."
The cast of The Tell Tale Heart - 2005 includes: Bela Lugosi as Narrator
They have much in common both being unreliable and mad. But to the differences. In the Cask of the Amontillado the narrator is angry and bent on revenge. In the tell-tale heart the narrator is sincere and acts our of paranoia.
he is not trust worthy
he is not trust worthy
The narrator is obsessed with the old man's "vulture eye" - a pale blue eye with a film over it that he perceives as evil. This obsession drives him to commit murder in order to rid himself of the eye.
fear