Evaluation:
Published: 05.10.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'He is Mad', 1.
  • Essays 'He is Mad', 2.
Extract

"Villains!" I shrieked, "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! Here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!" (p.116). This is how Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" catastrophically ends. Here, the erratic Narrator Poe deforms the story in such a way that we, as the readers, are brought into an extreme reality of a mentally imbalance, paranoid assassin's imaginative world of delusion. As we read the story, we will definitely find some parts where the narrator's fellness into insanity is clearly indicated; sorted from his appalling nervousness, his denia…

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