An Inspector Calls: A Fictional Narrative

Moreover, he sees himself as the shadow of death, in his thought of insanity, ‘… because death, in approaching the old man, had stalked his black shadow before him…’ - as if this justifies the murder of the old man. This demonstrates, his blurred vision of reality, because he feels the old man deserves death, and nothing will be able to stop it. Furthermore, the narrator makes references to heaven and hell, ‘I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.’ Ordinarily, these voices show insanity and a different conscience telling him what to do. In addition, the narrator can’t tell the difference between reality and visualization, which is a clear case of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disease which makes it difficult to judge reality, which associates with the narrator as well. Likewise, the narrator had difficulty in determining a real sound than a voice in his head. The author writes, ‘I fancied a ringing in my ears’, ‘It grew louder – louder – louder!’ The killer later goes on to confess his crime to the policemen, believing they can actually hear the sound. Though there is a lot of evidence proving he is a madman, but there are parts where the narrator has a sense of reality. At one part, the narrator even writes, ‘I knew what the old man felt, and pitied

she must have just gave up there was nothing left for her to do she

The next trick used in this story to make it scary was the beating of the mans heart once he woke up and came to be suspicious that someone was in the room with him. The speaker describes the beating of the heart as "so strange a noise as [it] excited me to uncontrollable terror" (Poe, 3). At this point the reader may think that it is the conscious of the speaker that is really bothering him rather than the mans heartbeat. Every time the speaker refers to the heartbeat he says that it keeps getting louder and louder. One can come to the assumption that at this point the speaker is only looking for reasons to support his killing a man. And in fact it is the beating of the mans heart that drove the speaker/killer to confessing about what he has done and showing the police where the body was.

Within the story, a sense of dreadful nervousness or sadness is portrayed by the way the narrator is seen within our minds as the story proceeds. As the story goes on we see the diseases that plague his body and mind. He portrays a constant state of nervousness, with an almost constant state of stress, as well as occasional meltdowns. One of those meltdowns is due to the hypothetical heartbeat that causes him to confess to the murder.

A stillness settled around them, all the hospital sounds fading into the background as the enormity of Tom’s admission finally hit home. The dark-haired officer rose to his feet, his movements slow and clumsy. But as a surge of adrenaline secreted into his system, his eyes darted wildly around him and the sudden need to escape the close confines of the room overwhelmed him. “I can’t...I...I’ve gotta go!” he blurted out, and spinning around, he stumbled out the door, hot blinding tears blurring his

for possession of stolen vehicle and they would be arriving in the area to take

The pressures show in the people many of whom become hysterical. The play examines the permanent conditions of the climate of hysteria and the consequences. The situation escalates and we watch the strange moral alchemy by which the accused become inviolable; the disrepute which overtakes the testimony of simple intelligence; the insistence on public penance; the willingness to absolve if guilt is confessed.

The town in which I was born and raised, is a small, close-knit community. In the quiet beach town, the style of law enforcement is most definitely watchman style. The primary objective of law enforcement officers who are following the watchman style of policing is to maintain order. I believe that my town followed this style based on the encounters I experienced with officers, as well as the encounters of others. Since the town is so small, it is rare that officers make an arrest or take strict action at all. While in school, it was not uncommon for the local officers to sit with the high school athletes and have dinner after a game at a local restaurant. As an adult, especially now that I’m learning about law enforcement, I realize that the

(Poe 303)” After the police officers are seated the narrator hears the noise of the old mans heartbeat that makes him going crazy and finally admit to the crime. Before he admits to the crime the heartbeat starts out soft and faint, but slowly progresses into a loud beating sound, which makes him go crazy. “It grew louder- louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not? They heard they suspected! They knew! ...... I felt that I must scream or die! And now again! Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! …..I admit the deed! –tear up the planks! –here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous

“Presently I heard a slight groan of mortal terror”. This highlights that he heard of a a frightening groan and he was filled with a scary instinct. “There entered three men, who introduced themselves with perfect suavity as officers of the police.” This exemplifies that the police showed up and it means there was trouble and this conveys an unsafe mood.

The reason for wanting to kill the old man is because of the old man’s eye the narrator says, “[whenever] it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye [forever]"(3). Later he also states, “I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that

The diction Luxun uses to describe the narrator’s feelings gives the reader the same feeling. “My flesh crept…her eyes made a shiver run down my spine.” is a feeling that almost everyone will feel when they are startled or under pressure. The narrator also feels

This is the twisted tale of Inspector Carla Novak and her rapid descend into a world of depravity, corporal punishment and unrestrained masochistic lust.

The narrator finally confesses to his crimes and why, was it the right choice? First, the narrator confesses his crime to the police because while they were sitting in the house, he said he heard a ringing noise in his head and that it was the old man's evil heart and he wanted them to take the body. Next, I think it was the right choice for him so that when he goes to the asylum he might get some help. Also, I think it was the right choice because the narrator killed the old man for a crazy man's reason. After that, has the ringing happen and got worse he also got terrible headaches and him thinking that the old man's evil heart is doing this until he break and tells the police. In conclusion, the headaches and ringing in the narrator’s head

The exclamation marks and dashes, repetition of the word “nervous”, and the use “very” and “dreadfully” also serves to exaggerate the situation. It tells readers that the narrator was on edge about something. The narrator is painted with guilt from the get go. The sentence begs readers to question what the narrator had done to be so nervous? It does a great job of keeping the reader on the edge of their seat by creating suspense in the story. From reading the rest of the story, we learn the narrator spent a few nights stalking this old man. We see the narrator spend the majority of his nights observing every little details. The narrator is going mad focusing on the man’s demon eye and heartbeat. Although the narrator has gone mad in the beginning of the story, he gets more nervous towards the end of the story. He is nervous that the police will find out that he killed the man and therefore, showed them what horrible thing he had done. From the very beginning of the story, the reader could tell that something bad had happened and the narrator was panicking because of that