Is the conflict in The Tell-Tale Heart external or internal?

Answer 1

He successfully completes the murder but he confesses to the police because he "hears" the beating of his heart.

Answer 2

The narrator hears an increasingly loud thumping sound, which he believes to be his victim's beating heart. This sound eventually drives him to reveal his crime and confess.

Answer 3

The conflict in the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allan Poe is the old man's evil eye. The killer (younger man) could not stand the eye. The killer described it like "A vulture's eye." The man had nothing against the older man, it was only his 'Evil eye!"
Central Conflict: Man vs. Self

The narrator struggles through admitting to the murder of the old man in a very chaotic-psychological manner. His mind brings the dead character back to life (through the beating of the heart), to a point of psychological break down.

Lesser Conflict:

Man vs. Man: when the narrator kills the old man

Answer 4

the conflict is internal because the eye istroubling the narrator in his mind. then at the end of the story the narrator thinks he is hearing the heart beat in his mind which then turns into an external conflict because he confesses to the police.

Answer 5

The conflict is man vs psychological matters.

Answer 6

The narrators attempt to cling to sanity.

I say it's the voice of conscience nagging a man who thought he was above common morality .

Answer 7

The conflict in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is internal. The main character struggles with his guilt and paranoia over the murder he has committed, leading to his own mental breakdown.

Answer 8

the vulture eye well at least in the book