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"The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe revolves around violent, ugly, bizarre, and disturbing events. These events help to shape the theme that mental stability is instrumental in the life of every human being. Most of Poe's writing revolved around gloomy elements for which he became famous. In "The Tell Tale Heart" the narrator seems to be mentally unstable, for no reason. He becomes strangely obsessed with his neighbor's vulture like eye. The old man's eye and the old man do no harm to narrator and he establishes this in the beginning of the short story. Though the eye and the man cause no harm he allows it to take over his life as a sick obsession he believes he must rid himself and the world of. The more he thinks about the eye the more he gets the motive to kill the old man and steal his ugly eye. Poe uses gloomy, violent, and bizarre elements to set the mood for such a peculiar story. The narrator's insanity drives him to steal the old mans eye.
The narrator states "[i]t is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none." (Poe). He established a likeable character in the old man by saying "I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye!"(Poe). This introduces the narrator's insanity early in the short story. The narrator had no idea why the old man's eye bothered him; this proves that the narrator has some mental issues. This opening scene adds a bizarre effect to the story, because the readers are able to understand the narrator and his insanity. Understanding the narrator is key the stories uniqueness. The reader is unsure why the eye bothers the narrator the extent to which it does therefore the reader is intrigued to reader further and discover the plight of the narrator and the reason for the condition of the infamous eye. The complexity in the...
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