The Tell-Tale Heart

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The Importance of a First Person Point of View in Edgar Allan Poe 's The Tell-Tale Heart

It is extremely crucial for an author to wisely utilize the literary elements to convey his message clearly . Through the proper choice , a fiction writer can easily make his or her storytelling more effective and powerful . A perfect example would be Edgar Allan Poe and how he used the point of view to express the themes of the story . In The Tell-Tale Heart ' Poe used first

person point of view to demonstrate the story 's most dominant themes : madness , paranoia and guilty

Edgar Allan Poe used the first person point of view in The Tell-Tale Heart ' wherein the narrator is involved in the action of the story This chosen point of view was very important in revealing the themes , as all three themes are grounded on the narrator . The nameless narrator is in the center of all these themes he was the one who is mad , paranoid and guilty . The first person point of view was crucial because if the story was told from another person 's point of view , the readers would not be able to grasp the extent of the narrator 's condition . Poe was aware that proof of insanity , paranoia and guilt would not be properly provided by an outsider only the narrator himself can demonstrate all those themes clearly

One of the themes of the story is madness . Since the beginning of the...