Edgar Allan Poe swiftly develops a mood of psychological terror and devil at the inception arena of the telltale heart story. Shortly, it becomes apparent that the commentator is mad; nevertheless he consistently postulates that he is clear-headed, and it appears supreme to him that the audience presumes him to be sane. Conversely, a rational person cannot make the conflicting announcements as articulated by the narrator (Hayes 19). While he declares to love the senior man who has neither insulted nor wronged him, the reporter has pronounced to murder him since the elderly man has a pale- blue eye of the vulture which makes his blood to run cold.
Most of the activities in story takes place during night hours, a suitable environment for the evil which is about to unravel, and the senior man appears to have no glimmering of what is to happen to him. Edgar Allan Poe develops the suspense by permitting the commentator to leisurely arrange the old man’s demise by searching him every dead of night and dark, but since the aged man’s optic is ever closed, the storyteller declines to murder him(Hayes 19). However, the eyeball must always be open for the narrator to execute the action. Therefore, when the lethal killing is eventually committed, the horrible state of the tale escalates and the chronicler finally dismembered the dead body by burying the corpse below the floor.
In conclusion, Edgar Allan Poe story of the telltale heart distorts the version of the real life, even as we recognize with the methods we may not seek to accept. As such, something glimmers our interest and drive us to go after the narrator via the frightening puzzle of his reasoning. Finally, the storyteller declares that his neighbors are sceptical people and his suspicion is proven correct and accurate.
Work Cited
Hayes, Kevin J. The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
