The Tell-Tale Heart

Some would like to believe that this story epitomizes the contempt that Poe held for his foster father, John Allan, who had died about eight years earlier, but that is purely speculation.

The killer reveals his crime because he hears a beating heart from under the floorboards; it's his own guilt that exposes itself. The narrator has been so nervous that he jumps at the slightest sound. He can hear all things on heaven and earth, he says, and some things in hell. But he maintains that he is not mad. To prove his sanity, he says, he will calmly tell the reader his story.

the murderer confesses

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From what I can tell from the context, I believe that the narrator is admitting that he is nervous and had been nervous, but denies that he is crazy.

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.

Paranoid, guilty, haunted, stressed.

it isn't

Not very since he's insane.

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

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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.

Paranoia in that the narrator felt that the old man was a danger to him when the old man did nothing to give that impression. Also, the narrator thought the police who came to the house after the body of the old man was cut up and hidden, knew he had done it when actually they had no idea and were just making a routine investigation about noises someone in the area complained about. He was also hallucinating in thinking the heart of the dead man was actually beating loud enough for the two policemen to hear it.

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I think he gets drawn in a little by Henry's craziness. He thinks her picture is beautiful and she's worth the wait. I think the narrator might be a tad lonely himself.

No, the more he talks about how perfectly he commited the crime, he is making you more and more convinced that this man is far, far, away from anything close to sanity.

Poe turned the story over to his friend James Russell Lowell, who paid the financially strapped, unemployed author $10 and published it in the January 1843 issue of his monthly magazine, The Pioneer.

Yes the narrator of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is insane - likewise the narrator of 'The Cask of The Amarillo' although not quite badly. However all Gothic literature doesn't have to have an insane narrator. in fact the majority of Gothic literature has perfectly sane narrators in a gruesome world.

It created a contrast between the police and the murderer that intensified the outrage that the murderer felt by their ignoring the maddening beat of the heart that really only he could hear.

The authors, Ambrose Bierce of 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and Edger Allan Poe of 'The Tell Tale Heart' have unique styles to pull the reader into the story. Both authors use unreliable narrator and imagery to allow the reader to picture and follow the narrator's way of thinking. In the Tell Tale Heart, the man is very repetitious and his psychotic behavior is what intrigues the overall dark madness of The Tell Tale Heart. In Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce uses illusions to allow the reader to follow wherever his ideas lead which also intrigues the overall dark madness effect.

After the old man is dead and under the floorboards the police arrive, and the narrator remains calm and his "manor had convinced them.?Villains!" "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! -- Here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!" The narrator of "The Tell Tale Heart" shows that he is unreliable. Concluding the questioning by the police, the narrator had a sudden fear and assumed that the policemen have heard the old man?s heart beat. Not only the narrator could hear the old man?s heart beating, but it is assumed (from the audience perspective) that the police could hear the narrator?s heart beating. The narrator listening to the old man?s heart beat is a replacement of his own consciousness that brought out the guiltiness for murdering the old man.

In the last three paragraphs of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge told by a third person point of view, Farquhar is being hanged by the rope, and when the rope is undone, Farquhar escapes and sees the light of the river. The light in this particular story represents a warm bright light from heaven. On other hand on the complete opposite side, in The Tell Tale Heart the light (lantern) signifies fear of the eye. However the narrator reveals that Farquhar?s escape is a hallucination that lasts only from moment the rope breaks his neck at the end of the fall.

In the Tell Tale Heart, Poe uses many figures of speech such as Anaphora at the beginning of a clause throughout the whole entire story as the narrator becomes calm and mad about the crime the narrator committed. A couple examples are: ?I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.? In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Bierce tends to use allusions that allude to slavery. An example in paragraph twenty, that circle of black represents slavery, the fatal injury to Peyton Farquhar?s soul. Bierce relies on imagery throughout the story on sight, and sound. An example of imagery with alliteration and onomatopoeia that is used in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is, ?A whiz and rattle of grapeshot among the branches high above his head roused him from his dream.?

The cause and effect for both stories are they both have characters that died. The Monkey's Paw the cause was when they wished for money and their son died and they got their wish for 200 pounds. The Tell-Tale Heart cause is the old man eye and lead him to kill the old man.

Imagined; formed a(n) idea, notion, opinion, or purpose.

The narrator's land lord had one eye with cataracts.