The Narrator – The protagonist who claims to be sensitive in his own but proves to be insensitive to the heartbeat of an old man. By removing the act of sight and sound show we are literally taking away power of life. Something we take it for granted as it is so much within us but this very aspect of sight and sound is the critical essence of our life. It is so much about the color of an eye and the sound of heart beat. It was his attempt to rationalize his own irrationalizes behavior. This act of his was camouflaged proving his delusion of something that had nothing harmful about the old man but so disturbing about his own behavior. The narrator is the protagonist and he justifies the mad act of killing the old man. In the process he becomes a predator and the old man becomes his prey. The story is about this obsession that grows on him and how he becomes a victim to such weird obsession. It is to brand the old man eye as evil eye. His strange obsession for a particular color of eye of an old man and that resemblance to a vulture’s eye make him behave insanely. The story examines the insanity and insensitivity of a man, though he considers himself to be sensible and stable in his mind. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” Theme “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. Reading his stories is like watching a grisly dance of death in a Gothic theatre in the dead of night surrounded with deadly silence. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, madness and paranoia, which are Poe’s predominate themes across many of his stories. This one is Poe’s best known short stories, despite its brevity. The stories are a blend of horror, supernatural and mystery is an eclectic collection of creative imagination. This short story is part of the book ‘The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories’ is a collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories that demonstrates his Gothic style narration. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer who captured readers’ imaginations with stories and poems that explored the dark side of the human mind. It was written almost two centuries back and it still holds up today with same intensity. This is a short story that is considered a classic. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe’s best known short stories.

The story “The Tell-Tale Heart” was first published in James Russell Lowell’s The Pioneer: A Literary and Critical Magazine, in January 1843.

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