Analysis Of Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart"
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Edgar Allen Poe's story "A Tell Tale Heart," has the protagonist
obsessed with an old man's eye. This obsession causes a conflict between
the protagonist and his sanity. This eye eventually drove him t commit
murder to rid the eye. The narrator's conflict increases as he plots the
murder, commits ....
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.... but on the eighth
night the obsession would become a killer.
On the eighth night the narrator, full of confidence, would enter
the room and awaken the old man. At this point the old man's eyes open and
the protagonist sees the evil eye. The narrator's obsession is becoming
more furious. Then, already furious the protagonist hears a heartbeat. It
was a sound that, "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This was the
old man's heartbeat and it increased the protagonist's fury. Now the
na ....
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