Although the narrator of Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, let's his lack of sound reasoning drive him to murder, he perceives himself to be a cunning and powerful master of fate in his plea to justify his sanity. ... Before the police could leave the narrator's home, he starts to hallucinate the muffled sound of the dead old man's beating heart under the floor. ... Poe's narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart embodies some qualities typical of an antihero. ... The narrator tells this tale in a precise and complete manner, and he uses the stylistic tools of ...

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The Tale Tell Heart, written by Edgar Allen Poe is a very dark, but magnificent piece of writing. It is about an unnamed narrator who tells the story from first person. ... The old man was very scared, and his heart was racing. The narrator could hear the heart beat of the old man. ... I think that the heart beat at the end is actually the narrators guilt. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Tell-Tale Heart," has many similarities other than the first person narrative. ... (Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart 1572) Neither victim fully understood why they were murdered. ... (Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart 1572) In the end, both killers had to deal with the consequences of their crimes. ... (Poe, The Cask of Amontillado 1597) The Tell-Tale Heart was much more animated. ... This is not the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." ...

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The narrator can also be seen as someone who is physically and mentally ill due to the fact of hearing his victim's heart beat after killing him. 5. ... He begins to think that the old man's heart is still beating until he confesses his act to the police officers. 6. ... It also shows that the human heart cannot support the weight of guilt. ...

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The "Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe, reveals a madman's insanity. ... " the terrors that distracted me I knew that what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart (Poe)." ... He stated "It was the beating of the old man's heart. ... His insanity drove him to tell the truth, which released him from his own hell, now exposed. ... The "Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe, tells us how one's insanity, is one's hell, that can only be released by one's own weak will power. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

When analyzing "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", some differences that may be noticed would be the length of each piece, the rhythm and rhyme at which the work is written, and the different language used to detail events that may or may not occur. ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" is written in paragraphs and doesn't follow a specific pattern or format. ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a story that would be read as you would read your child a bedtime story. ... Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'...

• Word Count: 639
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• Grade Level: High School