THE TELL-TALE HEART BY EDGAR ALLEN POE

              " THE TELL-TALE HEART"

                      “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe’s one of the most famous short stories. The tell-tale heart widely considered a classic of the gothic fiction genre. In this story a maniacal murderer is subconsciously haunted into confessing his guilt.

       The short story ‘ the tell-tale heart’ the main theme is ‘murder’ and ‘death’ . in this story we can see the two characters like the old man and young man.

         We can say that the story reflect the ‘evil’ . the evil of not society but the evil of ‘mind’. Because the young man wish to murder the eye he didn’t kill the old man. Why he does not kill old man and why he want to take revenge ? we don’t know?

      The opening is an in progress conversation between the narrator and another person who is not identified in any  way. In the night , the old man awakens and sits up in his bed while the narrator performs his nightly ritual. The narrator does not draw back and after some time decides to open his lantern. Later, old man realize something and thinking he hears the heartbeat  , beating loudly from terror, the narrator decides to strike, something the old man with his own bed.

        The narrator proceeds to chop the body up, and hide the pieces under the floorboard. The narrator makes certain to hide all signs of the crime. At the end of the story we can defined that the narrator that it is the heartbeat of the old man coming from under the floorboard. At last the narrator confesses to killing the old man and tells them to tear up the floorboard to reveal the body. Here, in this short story Poe’s indicates the narrator may be a servant of the old man’s or, as is more often assumed, his son. In that case, the “vulture” eye of the old man is symbolizing parental surveillance and possibly the paternal principles of right and wrong also the eye may also represent secrecy again playing on the ambiguous Lack of detail about the man or the narrator. Also in the story “the tell-tale heart” the old man represents the scientific rational mind while the narrator is the imaginative.