Literature: StoryTelling

YiChun

Assignment 3

2006 /5 /21

The Mystic World through Poe 's Eyes-The Tell-Tale Heart and Its Narrative Thoughts The existence of literature is to express humanity and human emotions in or through words . People can feel true and actual human nature through literature . Give a better opening statement about the wonders of literature . Furthermore , people can touch the mystic (not appropriate term ) world that is beyond their imaginations by reading literary works The Tell- Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is a good example for people to look

deeply into humanity (why is it a good example . The short story was first published in James Russell Lowell 's The Pioneer in January 1843 , and it appeared again in The Broadway Journal on August 26 , 1845 The story describes the emotions and thoughts of a mad man who killed the old man with the evil eye .It describes a mad man who killed an old man because of the old man 's evil eye . The story is plain and simple , yet it is able to arouse and pique the reader 's interest because of the use of symbols and excellent prose . includes specific symbols and is full of elegant s . By reading the story , we could see the dark side of humanity , and how it forms in the human 's mind through Poe 's eyes and his narrative thoughts

The setting of the story covers a period of eight days . The most important action occurs each night around midnight . The location is in the old man 's house and the narrator is the a caretaker of it . The whole story happened and revolved around the old man 's house . only occurs in one place- the old man 's house . The time frame and the location that Poe established for the story wereare simple , which further enhanced strengthens the shocking images of the characters and its the mystery ic power of the plot of story

The Ccharacters of the story were are only three : athe nameless and sexless narrator , the old man , and the police . The narrator is nameless and sexless because Poe only useds I ' and me ' to refer to in reference to the character . Most readers assumed that the narrator is a male because of a male author using a first person point of view (give the article title or author and year format , not the URL Available : http / HYPERLINK "http /www .poedecoder .com /essays /ttheart characters www .poedecoder .com /essays /ttheart characters . However , I think the narrator is a male , because he is strong enough to kill the old man and also because he was able to live with an old man and be his caretaker in the19th century (substantiate more

Poe writes the story in the first person point of view and it makes it easy for readers to understand every aspect of the narrator 's mind Our imaginationsthoughts are dragged through the narrator 's eyes and we hold our breath is heldas we continue to read...