The narrator's land lord had one eye with cataracts.
One of the man's eyes resembled a vulture, which drove the narrator to his actions. He thought the man's eye looked like a vulture.
The feeling and associations that the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart displays are evil, mistrust, poison, fear, disdain, and hatred; which he displays by explaining it to be vulture like, being covered by an eerie veil, claiming it taunted him, and the way it vexed him always. (Note: I did not quote these things from the tale exactly but this is a general feel of what Poe associates the old man's eye with.)
The narrator became obsessed with the large eye of his landlord. He described it as like a vulture's eye and could not get it out of his mind. He eventually decided the only way to rid himself of this obsession was to kill the old man.
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator visits the old man's room every night for seven nights. He does this to observe the old man's vulture-like eye, which troubles him greatly. The narrator is consumed by his obsession with the eye, ultimately leading to a gruesome and tragic outcome.
insanitymadnessparanoiaaudiotory hallucinationthe eye the irritating eye that keeps bugging him kiling of the old man the vulture eyeKarma What goes around comes around.
a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider black as pitch
In Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Telltale Heart", the old man's eye upsets the narrator because he claims to always feel it watching him. This motivation stems from his madness and fuels his actions.
because he or she dont like his vulture eye
The duration of The Vulture's Eye is 1.67 hours.
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" fears the old man's "vulture eye" - a pale blue eye with a film over it that unnerves and disgusts him. This intense fear drives him to commit the heinous act of murder.
No. One of his eyes is normal, but the other has a cataract. This is only speculation based upon the story text. "He had the eye of a vulture -- a pale blue eye, with a film over it." -- Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
It is a cultural reference to the act of pre-marital sexual relations.
The old man likely has a cataract in one eye that the narrator calls his "vulture eye", and the narrator has a strong desire to eliminate that eye.
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.
Poe uses the word work three times in the story, and your question is the first. The second time is this: "I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work;", and the third is in reference to the work of concealing the body. I believe that "the work", according to the narrator, is the elimination of the vulture (or evil) eye.
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 disturbed by his neighbor's pale, vulture-like eye, which he finds unsettling and believes is evil. This eye ultimately becomes the focus of the narrator's obsession and drives him to commit murder.