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Who is the Madman in The Tell-Tale Heart?

The narrator. He wasn't given a name, but in the story he was referred to as 'I.'


The mood of Poe's story The Tell-Tale Heart is nervous confusing tense and uncomfortable What decision did Poe make regarding the narrator that adds to this mood?

The mood of Poe's story the tell tale heart is nervous confusing tense and uncomfortable. The decision Poe made regarding the narrator that adds to his mood was that he lets the killer do the narration. His narrator is mentally ill.The mood of Poe's story the tell tale heart is nervous confusing tense and uncomfortable. The decision Poe made regarding the narrator that adds to his mood was that he lets the killer do the narration. His narrator is mentally ill.


How does the narrator feel after he commits the murder in the story The Tell-Tale Heart?

Paranoid, guilty, haunted, stressed.


Does the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart commit the perfect crime?

By seeming to be insane, the narrator convinces the reader that the murder could have been made for something as trivial as the landlord's eye; that the narrator could have cut up and hid the body and that he could have actually heard the sound of a dead heart beating under the floorboards. In other words, such strange and incredible occurrences were the result of a deranged mind.


Who is the narrator talking to in the story of The Tell-Tale Heart?

Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, is written in the first person. It is told by an unnamed narrator who describes a carefully calculated murder he committed, while attempting to convince the reader of his sanity.

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How are these similar The Telltale Head as the eighth episode of The Simpsons' first season and the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe?

Other than the title, The Telltale Head being a play on The Telltale Heart the similarities lie in The Telltale Heart having the narrator, who is presumably the murderer, being haunted by the sound of the victim's beating heart. Bart, who is also the narrator of The Telltale Head briefly, is haunted by the voice of Jebidiah Springfield.


What is an example of a onomatopoeia in The story the telltale heart by Edgar Allan Poe?

One example of onomatopoeia in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is the sound of the old man's heart beating loudly, which is described as "thump, thump, thump" as the narrator becomes more and more agitated by the noise.


At the beginning of the story what does the narrator try to find the courage to do?

The narrator tries to find the courage to kill the old man in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart."


Does The Tell-Tale Heart have an omniscient narrator?

The story is told in first person point of the view; the murderer is the narrator and begins the story by repeatedly saying that he is not crazy for killing an old man with a weird eye (an innocient man).


Who is the Madman in The Tell-Tale Heart?

The narrator. He wasn't given a name, but in the story he was referred to as 'I.'


What is your explanation for the heartbeat noise that drives the narrator to confess The Tell-Tale Heart?

Twice Poe uses the phrase: "as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." to describe what the narrator hears.


The mood of Poe's story The Tell-Tale Heart is nervous confusing tense and uncomfortable What decision did Poe make regarding the narrator that adds to this mood?

The mood of Poe's story the tell tale heart is nervous confusing tense and uncomfortable. The decision Poe made regarding the narrator that adds to his mood was that he lets the killer do the narration. His narrator is mentally ill.The mood of Poe's story the tell tale heart is nervous confusing tense and uncomfortable. The decision Poe made regarding the narrator that adds to his mood was that he lets the killer do the narration. His narrator is mentally ill.


Who was the main characters in tell tale heart?

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.


How does the narrator feel after he commits the murder in the story The Tell-Tale Heart?

Paranoid, guilty, haunted, stressed.


What does the narrator wrongly think the police can hear at the end of the story?

he hears the beating of the dead mans heart


What is true about how the narrator sees himself in the story The Tell-Tale Heart?

he believes his mind is sound,but he is nervous


What role does the narrator have?

the narrator is the person (or animal) that is telling the story. The author writes the story, but the story is told by the narrator.