The Tell-Tale Heart analysis by Edgar Allan Poe

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Subject Area:Literature

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In the second paragraph, it comes out openly about the old man, the old man’s death and his eye they are actually symbols. After careful analysis, the old man is not real, but he is an image that is stuck in the mind of the narrator. In the tale, the eye symbolizes the guilty of the narrator’s mind. The old man is an imaginary figure, and many reasons are indicating that this is true. The story is narrated in great details without the narrator conveying who the old man is actually is known. ”He continued to refer it as, “the damned spot (Poe, 1590). ” He spurted this when his lantern flashed on it. These references about the eye make me believe that the old man is an imaginary figure.

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Thus, the real focus of the text is on the symbolism of the eye. Judging from the information in the text, the narrator is psychotic. I believe when someone is asked to explain why they are not mad, makes someone to appear like they are mad, and therefore in this instance, he was trying to talk out of this situation. The narrator has false confidence that the police will not find the body. I believe it is only a madman who can let the police to search the house for a body that is hidden under the floorboards. This I think is the apex test of the narrators’ morals. These are my three factors that are contributing to my reasoning that the narrator is psychotic.

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