Demonstration of madness in Edgar Allan Poe's.
Edgar Allan Poe is the great American writer of the short story. One of Poe's short stories was "The Tell-Tale Heart", the Story of a cruel murder. To understand the main idea of the story reader must know all literal devices that Poe used to demonstrate character's madness in this cruel story.
Many factors of Poe's life have influenced his writing stile. He lived a difficult life. Because he was raised in a dysfunctional household. This is not the main factor to his intriguing and fascinating writing style, but it is a main factor in the understanding of Poe. In this story reader will see two main characters - an old man and the young mad man, who will kill an old man because of his eye. Poe relates the old man as one that has a certain type of evil that is inside of him. The narrator does not hate the man that he is going to kill, he hates his eye. The eye as readers will see in the story represents evil. Eye is a part of an old men, then old men is evil, and young man kills him.
" Poe used strong thoughts and means, structure of the plot as the main device. First of all "The Tell-Tale Heart" is told by the first-person narrator, it allows the reader to feel close to him." (Paraphrase http://www.ffl.msu.ru/people/stitova/topic1/part26.html).
As readers start to feel close to the narrator's mind and feelings, they can see all his nervousness and madness. Such expressions as: "nervous"- "dreadfully nervous" (829) - "the disease has sharpened my senses" (829). Such question to the reader as: "Am I mad?"(829) and an attempt to persuade himself through his writing that he is not mad, creates an enormous tension, as the reader starts to think that the main character is mad. Impossible idea enters the narrator's mind, "It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived it haunted me day and night" (829). The narrator sees the main object of his fear and evil, "I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this.