Suffocates him with a mattress then dismembers him and hides him underneath the floorboards.
He killed him for looking at the killer with his "filmy" eye. Sad to think that nowadays, we would know this old guy just had a cataract.
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" kills the old man because he is driven by an irrational fear and obsession with the old man's pale blue eye. The eye's "vulture-like" appearance symbolizes the narrator's increasing madness and paranoia, leading him to commit the murder to rid himself of the eye that haunts him.
He kills him because he is scared of one of his eyes, which has a film over it. He has nothing else against him but this.
On the eighth night of the narrator opening the door to the old man's room.
yes..the narrator killed the old man
and the process was way to horrible...
you can't imagine
Because he can no longer stand the sight of the old man's "vulture eye",
pale blue with a film over it.
because of his evil eye - and the guy is just plain crazy, paranoid.
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," why does a neighbor call the police to the house?
The narrator tries to find the courage to kill the old man in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart."
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.
the way he looked at him
Revenge is shown in "The Tell-Tale Heart" when the narrator decides to kill the old man because of his eye, which he finds repulsive and unsettling. The narrator's revenge is driven by his obsession with the old man's eye and his distorted perception of it as evil.
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.
Because he can no longer stand the sight of the old man's "vulture eye", pale blue with a film over it.
The narrator has decided to kill the old man because of his eye.
Premeditation in "The Tell-Tale Heart" showcases the calculated planning and deliberation of the narrator in committing the murder. It highlights the narrator's sanity as he carefully executes his plan to kill the old man and hide his crime. However, it also serves to reveal the narrator's growing paranoia and obsession with the old man's eye, leading to his eventual downfall.
On the eighth night in "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator sneaks into the old man's room and opens the door quietly. However, he accidentally startles the old man, causing him to wake up and cry out in fear. This moment of panic leads to the narrator's decision to ultimately kill the old man.
The sound that drives the narrator to confess the crime is a heart; (the heart of the man he killed or the his own?)
it plays the role of the victim trying to tell a story that he wants to kill the old man
verbal irony:-empathizes old man, while hatching plan to kill him-calls self calm and logical, but truly insane and agitatedsituational irony:-madmen are not reasonable, but narrator seems to be bothered by justicedramatic irony:The narrator conitinually claims that he is sane, and yet his actions prove that he is most certainly mad.verbal irony:-empathizes old man, while hatching plan to kill him-calls self calm and logical, but truly insane and agitatedsituational irony:-madmen are not reasonable, but narrator seems to be bothered by justicedramatic irony:-reader understands narrator killed old man, yet police are unaware-the narrator is mad, though he believes he is saneAll three types are present.Dramatic irony: The narrator believes and states that he is sane.Situational irony: The narrator states that mad men are not reasonable, he isn't reasonable in that he is uncomfortable with justice.Verbal irony: Stating that he is sane also applies to this, but for originality, feeling for the old man while wanting and succeeding to kill him is also verbal irony.The irony of this classic short story is that shortly after the narrator kills the old man and hides his heart underneath the floorboards the police arrive. He then begins to hear said heart beating, and he eventually breaks and confesses to the police. The guilt of killing the man he hated eventually caused his own undoing.