The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe | Summary & Analysis 

I often feel compelled to jump to Poe's defense too! He was such a complicated person.

I mean he was a pedo

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The analysis is many things..........but comprehensive??

@@iananderson3799 guys do u have the wholl pdf in their website cuz i canot access !! cuz i need the analysis line or paragraph explanation one by one

@@Animals13115 buy the book, read it, then analyse it yourself. Like in the olden days.

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Wouldn't you say that this is a Reader's Approach actually? Each reader may interpret it differently from one another.

@@chikakoshirogane5122 I think that most authors especially the poets tell stories that are connected to a deeper personal story that the author was actually saying. Of course, I don’t know this for sure as I concede no one knew, but Mr. Poe. The “official “ interpretation or widest known just makes it so pointless that he was just crazy while trying to convince the reader of their sanity. We look around we see how people can quickly descend into madness when challenged, feel judged for their beliefs, or behavior. The poet, being a walking challenger through their art would immediately oppose the narrator just through their presence. I think there lies the heart of my interpretation. Edgar was a Poet and social critic. “The further society gets from the truth the more it hates those that speak it” -George Orwell

guys do u have the wholl pdf in their website cuz i canot access !! cuz i need the analysis line or paragraph explanation one by one

wow! what food for thought. The pieces of the puzzle are finally fitting together through digesting your explanation. I think, to add on to it: there is the extra layer of depth to the narrator's mentality, as the so-called absence of his 'paranoia' and ironic divulgence of the events inadvertently tells us of the underlying insanity he has tried so desperately to prove himself out of. While I do believe there is truth to the interpretation of the old man's 'Evil Eye,' I also suspect that the underlying, unsuspecting power of paranoia eating away at the narrator's mind contributed to his 'madness' as he likely felt the judgement befalling him (with references to recognising the hideousness of criticism only truly visible when exposed to a luminescent sliver of light, which otherwise would go unnoticed in the darkness, or the closing of thine eye, presumably implying that the 'bright ray' of a metaphorical awareness that the evilness of judgement is present when exposed). Though, this could just as easily be interpreted as a plague of psychosis undertaken by the narrator, where he feels the cold-blooded ill-intending gaze of the old man out of his own internal delusions and self-doubt that made him view others in a negative light; for all we know, the neighbour might not have been passing any form of judgement, and that the narrator was simply projecting his own insecurities, emotions and indignation. In any case, it is most certainly a thought-provoking piece that has marvellously delved into the complexities of mental health... which, you could say, had been shed light on... Thank you for your inference on such a masterpiece of a tale! A tell-tale heart, at that!

@@luisa8506 I think you are spot on in your analysis! In my opinion, the narrator suffers from severe paranoia of negative appraisal. The story begins with the narrator practically pleading the unnamed "you" to view him as truthful. He's desperate for "you" to see him in a way that satisfies his own fragile self-image. I think literary critics get the narrator's motivation incorrect. Most, if not all, say that the narrator murdered the old man because of the old man's evil eye. If you read the text carefully, however, it seems as if the narrator, under the pressure of having to justify his crime so as to not seem insane, almost subconsciously discovers that his reason for murdering the old man had something to do with his eye. Reread the text and you'll see exactly what I mean! Perhaps the real reason he murdered the old man was because the old man found something very strange about the narrator, and the narrator, having an acute sensitivity to how other people view him, decided to kill the old man. Perhaps the old man knew that the narrator was insane, and the narrator murdered the old man to keep him from telling others. In light of the fact that the narrator is being deliberately deceptive about his motive for killing the old man, we cannot trust any part of his account. It is a credit to Poe's genius that so many readers believe the narrator's account of what happened! I've read dozens of critical essays where scholars contend that the narrator feels guilty. I have yet to be convinced. The argument seems to be that when the police arrive to investigate a neighbor's complaint about noise, he eventually becomes guilt-ridden and confesses. This is not a careful analysis of the textual evidence in my opinion. My reading is that (if you actually believe the narrator to be telling the truth) when the police arrive, the narrator is supremely confident in his post-crime clean-up. He spilled no blood in the old man's room and he dismembered the body in a bathtub. He knows that the police will not discover his crime and he's having fun thumbing his nose at them. He''s committed the perfect crime! He's so confident that he brings the police into the very room where the body is concealed beneath the floorboards and sets down chairs for them to rest in. He's reveling in his perfect victory! It is not guilt that causes him to confess. I believe it is more in alignment with your analysis of a severe paranoia coupled with tinnitus. If you've ever suffered from tinnitus (and I have) you can identify with the rhythmic "whooshing" sound that repeats and repeats in your ears. The rhythm of the sound could be, if you were insane, thought to be a heartbeat. He confesses not out guilt, but because he thinks the police are making fun of him.

because he thought the police can hear the beating heart ans are mocking him

@@tricky821he’s crazy