Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" delineates how a man's creative energy is fit for being so vivid that it significantly can influence individuals' lives. ... His dis-trustfulness towards the man made his heart beat even faster and in his condition of insanity he admits to murdering the old man with expectations of freeing his life of his menacing heartbeat saying '"Villains!" ... --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"'...

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The most important example of this could be The Tell-Tale Heart; is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which the narrator tries to persuade us of his sanity while he is describing a murder that he committed. ... With this in mind, I will focus my attention on the discussion of unnaturalness in Poe´s the Tale-Tell Heart. ... In order to understand this I will explain in more detail; many tales rely on a narrative, for example, in which blame is distributed. ...

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In both tales, pagan or classical allusions, in contrast to Christian allusions, are used in reference to that which is fallen or damned. ... Beowulf had the heart of a Christian to help people but wanted the selfish rewards of Paganism, and for this reason, he struggles between both. Beowulf's continued success as a great epic of the Middle Ages is due to the classic tale that it tells. ...

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Unfortunately this is not the end of this mediocre tale of raving stupidity and obvious insanity; at least on the part of the writer. Even the kind hearted meek Emilia was able to at least betray one person before the end, after Othello kills Desdamona (I loved that part) Emilia turns on Iago and tells Othello, "That handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fortune and did give to my husband." 5.2, 232 This to me was the ultimate betrayal because Emilia had said she would never betray her husband, unless it was for the world, and in the end she did it out of guilt, not even a single cen...

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