The Tell Tale Heart

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When Montresor is first introduced, the reader can easily identify Montresor as an unreliable narrator based on his unreasonable need to get back at Fortunato. He begins his recollection with words of exaggeration, recalling the “thousand injuries” (Poe 179) he endured, and the insult Fortunato had “ventured upon” (Poe 179). There is no further explanation on what would warrant such resentment before he quickly transitions to his definition of revenge:

The readers can pick up on Montresor’s crazy and vengeful, yet cunning, character from the feelings Montresor expresses on revenge. He is clever as he executes his plan to annihilate Fortunato. Montresor treats revenge very seriously. Montresor says when he plans to get revenge he has to follow through, it is never just a threat. He feels so strongly towards revenge and so insecure that when he says something he feels he has to do it; otherwise, others will think he just issues empty threats. Although he does not want to get caught, he says the victim needs to know who is getting the revenge. It should not be small it should be planned well. “I must not only punish, but punish with impunity” (87). Throughout the whole time leading up to Fortunato's immolation, Montresor says he must make sure Fortunato does not doubt his goodness. Montresor deceives Fortunato by smiling at him and continuing to act the same, all friendly like nothing happened. Montresor takes revenge so seriously, that

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” vs “The Tell-Tale Heart” Three in four people have played a sport in their childhood. They had the variety of many different options of which sport they would like to follow. While having many different choices, each sport being unique in its own way, they all can relate as all of the sports make people more fit. The same could be said in “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” the main character, Peyton Farquhar, wants to go North for job opportunities, but he has to get through the Owl Creek Bridge and sneak his way past the soldiers guarding it.

A person that brutally killed four people, and unaware of the very fact that he is the one that murdered all of them. “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King is a story that takes place at New Sharon college, at the start of strawberry spring, and the narrator tells the story about how there is a killer on the college campus, and in the end we find out he is the killer. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story from the perspective of a mentally ill woman, who is on a summer stay at a colonial mansion, and her husband makes her stay in a bedroom to treat her mental illness, however the result is compromised due to the wallpaper in the room making her feel more ill than ever before. Lastly “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar

It is truly awful that the reader is expected to side with Montresor because of some unnamed insult Fortunato has committed upon him. Montresor is adamant he must exact his revenge on Fortunato, despite the fact that he is very friendly with Fortunato up until he locks him up for eternity. The reader is supposed to realize that he has reasons for his actions “and these are reasons we should he able to understand. Therein lies a deeper horror in the story” (White). Montresor is far too obsessed with revenge to realize the dark evil of his acts.

One of the many insults that angered Montresor was a comment that said that his family is plagued by vengeful acts, and in his attempt to stop the countless attacks, Fortunato's insult became reality. This shows how clouded Montresor was by his rage that he proved the ones he was against right in the end. Moreover, Montresor’s behavior in the short story exhibits a disturbing lack of empathy or remorse for his actions. On the contrary, he seemingly takes pride in knowing that he won't be caught for the murder. He remains eerily calm and composed throughout the whole ordeal, showing zero signs of hesitation or regret.

Research Essay: “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe, is a story of a nauseating death. Murder as an upshot of an eye; literally. Incongruous actions are taken by Poe when he determines the fate of a man he claims love upon, all because “He had the eye of a vulture” (Poe), and Poe plots the death of this old man. As noted in Short Story Criticism, it’s stated that; What precipitated the narrator’s insanity and the subsequent murder was his irrational obsession with the old man’s so called “Evil Eye.” The narrator freely admits to his auditors that this was his Primmum mobile: “yes, it was this!

Because the story is told long after the events took place, there are reasons to doubt his tale. But, as it turns out, this Montresor might have had a right to feel the way he did after all. The story itself is written as like an interview or letter to a close friend of Montresor about why he killed Fortunato. In the beginning of the story, Montresor states “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” So he gives the reader a little insight to prior conflict between the two characters.

For an hour he stood at the old man's chamber door quietly. In his madness, which he insists it's just an "over-acuteness" of his senses, he believes he hears the beating of the old man's heart. At first, he reveled in the old man's terror but with every moment that he heard that beating sound his fury grew more and more. The more nervous he became, the faster and louder the beating sound became. When he could take it no more, the storyteller goes into a paranoid frenzy. During this frenzy, the storyteller is afraid that neighbors will hear the beating of the old man's heart. This causes him to take action. He quickly subdues the old man and kills him. But is it really the old man's heart the storyteller hears? Even after the storyteller kills the old man, he still hears the heart slowly pounding and then finally stopping. Was it the old man’s heart, or rather was the storyteller hearing his own heart beat in his ears? As the storytellers rage and excitement grew, so did the sound. It did not go away until after the storyteller slowly calmed down, until after his deed was finished.

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe the student becomes obsessively pushing his need for self-torture to the extreme. To become more sorrow, he calls for the bird to hear only one response to become morself-tortured.

Poe is fascinated by the eye, not just human eyes but eyes of all kinds. In his story “The Tell-Tale Heart” he explains his love for the old man as we not not know the name of. Poe explains that he is not into wealth and greed but art.” For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this!” (Poe 1). Some people would think this in another way, but my opposition is that poe finds the eye to have many different forms of art. I mean, Have you ever taken the time to deeply detail the design and look of an eye? There are explosions of color and if you look close enough it kinda looks like a star. Poe without a doubt was not sane. That is, so we think. “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself

The lesson learned in the “The Tell-Tale Heart” is, “although someone may believe that what they are doing at the time is not wrong, they do have a guilty conscience and eventually it catches up to them.” This is conveyed in the story when the narrator, whom the author portrays as a deranged person, kills an old man solely due to his evil eye, which in reality, is the result of a condition called cataract. The story begins with the narrator telling us about how he manages to watch the old man everynight waiting for the right moment to kill him. The narrator finally gets his chance, when one night the old man lies awake wondering if the noises that are drifting to his ears, are being caused only by animals. The moment the narrator shines his

In the short story of Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator talks about an insane mad man who speaks to himself. He describes what his intentions to kill an old man who he loves, but allows his emotions to overwhelm him with the thoughts that the old man’s eye in which he identifies as a vulture’s eye is invading his every emotion. He goes on to expose his every move insanely and vividly to murder the old man.

Edgar Allan Poe is a very famous author who is well-known for his dark and gloomy narratives. The “Tell-Tale Heart,” in particular, is a story about an old man with an unusual eye who is murdered. The narrator of the story is the killer but the identity is never revealed. It remains somewhat of a mystery. The gender of the killer is never explicitly stated. The killer of the old man could be considered a woman due to the reason they lived together, why the narrator claimed to love the old man, and why the police didn’t suspect anything when they came to the home.