Analysis Of "The Tell-Tale Heart": First Person Point Of View
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Point of view is important to any story, because it can help create
the mood, and setting of a piece. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a good example
of this. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe uses first person point of view to
create suspense and tension, while letting the reader try to discover the
thought ....
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.... suspense of not knowing what will happen next.
By using first person point of view, Poe was able to show how the
narrator feels. An example of this is when the narrator uses the phrases
at the beginning to question his existence. The narrator wanted to know
if he was mad, or not. Phrases such as "I heard all things in the heaven
and in earth" (62), tells the reader that the narrator indeed is mad, yet
the narrator thinks himself not. In the following statement, "If still
you think me mad ....
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