1. Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart
Although the narrator of Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, let's his lack of sound reasoning drive him to murder, he perceives himself to be a cunning and powerful master of fate in his plea to justify his sanity. ... Before the police could leave the narrator's home, he starts to hallucinate the muffled sound of the dead old man's beating heart under the floor. ... The story lacks any concrete details as to why the speaker had such an intense dislike for the old man's eye besides it unappealing appearance. ... Poe's narrator in The Tell-Tale Hea...
- Word Count: 917
- Approx Pages: 4
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School