Edgar Allen

Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most well known poets. Poe is known for his eerie and terrifying tales. Poe has three similar stories that stand out. “ The Cask of Amontillado” is about a man named Montrassor looking for a way to seek revenge on Forchanado. Montrassor seals Forchanado into a room behind the wall in his catacomb. “The Black Cat” is about a man that has a strong loathing of his cat and kills it, as time passes, he finds another cat and absolutely hates it, more than the last cat. This loathing leads him to get frustrated about it and kills his wife because she tries to stop him from killing it. Lastly “The Tell-Tale Heart” this is about a man that is disgusted by this man's eyes, so he stalks him and then suffocates him and then cuts him up and goes crazy because he doesn’t want to get caught. These three stories are all similar but all have I different kind of intensity to them.” The Black Cat” is the spookiest one out of the three, the narrator because

    In “What is the Horror Genre”, she says “Some horror comes from inside the characters. Something goes wrong inside, and a person becomes a monster.” (Russel, 128) This is the case in “The Tell-Tale Heart” because the main character isn’t a monster and there are no real monsters in the story, but once he thinks of a plan to kill the old man, he changes. Thus, he becomes a monster driven to kill the old man. What led to him killing the old man was because of an eye, an eye that made him nervous. “I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. 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.” (Poe, 89)

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is a first-person narrative short story that showcases an enigmatic and veiled narrator. The storyteller makes us believe that he is in full control of his mind yet he is experiencing a disease that causes him over sensitivity of the senses. As we go through the story, we can find his fascination in proving his sanity. The narrator lives with an old man, who has a clouded, pale blue, vulture-like eye that makes him so helpless that he kills the old man. He admits that he had no interest or passion in killing the old man, whom he loved. Throughout the story, the narrator directs us towards how he ends up committing a horrifying murder and dissecting the corpse into pieces. The narrator who claims to

The short story “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as a horror story. Although horror stories are most commonly classified with monsters, this story is not associated with actual monsters, like Frankenstein or Cerberus. A horror story might incorporate characters with monstrous characteristics, such as when the old man is murdered by the narrator in the “Tell Tale Heart.” The short story “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe incorporates certain elements that help create the horror genre, including as crimes, slow- down, and nervousness or anxiety.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote gruesome short stories, dark love stories, and the occasional detective; but what we do not know is how he came up with such vividly twisted horrors, delightfully heart wrenching words, and incredible intense mysterious tales. Poe himself is a delicate mystery; his unexpected death was surprising and, yet dumbfounding. Poe’s works, are works of confessions; confessions of a murder, who had killed innocent people in cold blood. He wrote to rid himself of the guilt he had succumbed to; he had to rid himself of the murders he had committed, to merely pass it on as some work of fiction. Poe would rather, pinned the crimes on a fictional person than to let the whole world know who he is.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s horror short story, it gives a description of how an overwhelming obsession turns into insanity, leads to the end of its victim and others, and guilt brings out the truth in all of us. Before these critiques can be proposed even further, a brief summary must be given. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the story of man being driven to murder is told. The main character starts the whole story off asking the reader why do people think of him as insane whereas he thinks he is perfectly normal, if not cleverer than the average man. He then continues with describing an older man and even though being a perfectly fine old man, the main character has been driven to kill him because of one reason only; his eye.

Edgar Allen Poe wrote stories that induce fear in the reader's mind. he gave the main characters little description of appearance and name along with deep insight to the inner thought processes of the characters to give a strong sense of overwhelming fear. He had many different conflicts that were often driven by a form of anger and hatred and often included some lesson that leads you away from becoming like the killers and psychopaths. While the characterization of the protagonist and the motivation for the conflict are very similar in Poe’s stories “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart” the theme of the stories are distinctly different changing with each story.

Edgar Allan Poe creates an atmosphere of fear and dread in the “The Tell-Tale Heart” by vivid details and the insistence that the narrator is not crazy. The first sign of fear in the story is formed from vivid details. Midnight strikes, the narrator is back with the same routine, same caution, same loathed vulture eye of the old man who he loves. Poe writes, “His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (For the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers)” (Poe 304).

The author of “The Tell Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe, used character development, suspense and violence to evoke feelings of fear and dread from the audience. In The Tell Tale Heart, the narrator and an old man live together in an apartment. The old man has a “vulture eye” that has vexed the narrator. He feels the only way to rid himself of the eye is to kill the old man. The narrator tells us how precise and precautionary his actions are, as if it will convince the reader he is not insane.

This essay will discuss the themes in Poe’s writing that mirror his personal life and, in addition, the fear and supernatural motivators for his characters. First, I will discuss Poe’s background and explore how he became best known as a poet for his tales of mystery and macabre.

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe indicates a dreadful fear of death in a dream scenario that ultimately leads to an actual murder. The dark and suspenseful events lead to the murder of the old man. Without any given motive, the reader can interpret his/her own justification of why the old man was murdered. Poe’s use of symbols and diction remained active throughout the story. From symbolism to the setting, it is a clear thought that the narrator was afraid of death. The fear and dreams became extremely unbearable that the narrator had to silence the fear, by coldheartedly, executing the old man because he symbolized death itself.

Each event in one's life whether important, meaningless, joyful or sickening has an impact on that person's character. Harrowing & tragic events occur often as it was for Edgar Allen Poe which left a vast impact on his character. This author's stories focus on his wretched life and obstacles placed in the forms of stories. His unfortunate events turned into eerie, emblematic tales such as “The Raven”, “The Black Cat”, “The cask of amontillado” & more which all have twisted plot lines such as horror, sadness, revenge etc.

In the Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is struggling with his own sanity. He was driven by his compulsive detestation of the “evil eye” to kill a man he verbalizes he dotes. He then claims to perceive the beating heart of the dead man. Poe uses a lot of suspense in his poem.

Edgar Allan Poe was an early American writer, poet, and critic whose life could be described as chaotic and troubled. Poe’s life was plagued by disappointments and surrounded with death and, by using these experiences in his writings, he captivated audiences. Nicknamed “Father of the Detective Story”, Poe’s writings are eerie yet easy to understand and have remained popular into the 21st century ("Edgar Allan Poe”). While he was considered part of the American Romantic Movement, the writings of Edgar Allan Poe still continue to frighten readers and inspire writers more than 160 years after his death.

Fear is being anxious and having that indescribable feeling in your gut over this one thing that you can’t get out of your mind. This feeling ultimately compels you to avoid something or make reckless decisions and goes hand in hand with those deemed to be insane. People who suffer from insanity are often those who are extremely apprehensive, constantly having something on their mind and letting it affect the way they think and do certain things. “Tell Tale Heart” tells us the events of a seemingly perturbed narrator who is determined to kill an elderly man. Poe utilizes symbolism, characterization, and syntax to reveal the complexity of the narrator’s fear and illustrate the idea that being overwhelmed with guilt can lead to insanity.