The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The story is opened by a narrator that remains unnamed by inscribing the reader and that he is not mad, but simply nervous. The narrator says that he is going to narrate a story where he confesses to having killed an old man but still defends his sanity. His inducement was neither desire nor passion for money, but instead a fright of the pale blue eye of the man. The narrator is distressed by the clouded, pale-blue, eye that resembled that of a vulture. He again insists that he is not crazy, as his measured yet cool actions, are not like of a mad man even though they are criminal. Each night he crept into the old mans apartment and observed him as he slept. When morning came, he would behave as if nothing had happened (Poe 3).

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After one week of creeping, the narrator suddenly decides that the time has come to murder the old man. The night of the murder, the narrator arrives at the old mans house where he finds him crying. The old man is afraid of the lonely nights that his heart starts thumping. It is at this moment that the narrator kills the old man as he is afraid that the neighbor might hear the loud thumping of the old mans heart. He dismembers and hides the pieces of the body under the bedrooms floorboards. He does a clean job in ensuring that there is no trace left behind. Just after he is done, the police arrive, having being tipped by the neighbor (Poe 6).

The narrator acts normal as he chats with the police. He leads the police throughout the house, even in the bedroom where the old man lays dead. As they sit down to talk in the old mans bedroom, the narrator appears comfortable until he starts to hear pounds of the old mans heart. The narrator panics as he also thinks that the police must have heard the sound. Driven insane by the notion that they are ridiculing his torment with their pleasurable chitchat, he divulges to the crime and yelps at the men to pry up the floor (Poe 8).

Poe economically uses his words in the story to provide the audience with a study of mental deterioration and paranoia. He disrobes the story of too much detail as a manner to elevate the obsession of the murderer with unadorned and specific entities; the eye of the old man, the heartbeat, and even the murderers own claim of sanity. His pointed language and economic style consequently contribute to the chronicle content, and possibly this consortium of content and form truly epitomizes paranoia. Like the beating heart, even Poe himself is complicit to capture the narrator in his evil endeavor, in the plot.

The narrator of Poe loves the old man, expect for his eye. He has no greed whatsoever for the wealth of the old man, neither is he vengeful. His main aim is to separate the old man from his Evil eye, an inherent part of the old mans identity. The narrator considers the eye as spate from the old man and that is what makes it easier for him to murder the old man while insisting that he loves him.

The protagonists, as compared to the author are both imaginative. The protagonist imagines that the vulture-eye of the old man was some sort of power or secret. While on the other hand, the author has an imaginative mind as he captures his audience with the series of imaginative activities that take place in the story.

Work cited

Edgar Allan Poe. The Tell-Tale Heart. 2011

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