Edgar Allan Poe 's The Tell Tale Heart

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Yogesh Patel
Kristi Caudill
ENG 251
11 October 2017
Guilty of Conscience
When thinking of an earlier American literature writer people always remember Edger Allan Poe with respect. Poe’s story always about the dark, suspense and craziness. Poe gone through lot more difficulties in his early age. His writing shows his hardship in his life. Edgar Allan Poe is the author of a story title of “The Tell-Tale Heart”. This Narrative was published in the year 1843, and tale is about the external conflict and delusion of the narrator who is also the main character of the story. The narrator is having difficulty in thinking and had a fantasy of maltreatment. In this short story, the author uses ironic vocabulary to create the reader’s interest in
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In the beginning he had anxiety about old man’s pale blue eye. The narrator visits the old man 's bedroom every night for seven nights before killing him on the eighth night. Due to pale blue eye he killed the old man with insanity. Due to his anxiety narrator confirms the crime to the police officer and plead the guilty of his crime. According to calm clinic, “People with anxiety do worry often, especially about irrational things. Those with paranoia also tend to assume the worst, believing that these dangers are destiny.” (Understanding Anxiety and Paranoia, 5). This article discusses the relationship between the Anxiety and Paranoia on the people. Anxiety can affect the way you see yourself and others, which may feel like paranoia. The more severe the anxiety, the worse it may be. An important component of anxiety is that anxiety has the ability to genuinely change thoughts in a way that you may not even notice. Those with anxiety are more likely to think negative thoughts in a way that are very similar to how paranoia is experienced. In the beginning narrator confirms that he loves the old man. He loves the old man but he still kills him just because of his evil vulture eye. This thing shows the narrator does not have control on his own thoughts.
In this tale narrator claims he had hypersensitivity. He can hear a small voice very easily. According to Poe, “Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the
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