Point Of View In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

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The point of view is referred from the narrator created to make arguments. Edgar Allen Poe uses first person in "The Tell Tale Heart" to write from the perspective of a man who murders the old man, with an "evil eye." The narrator in this story, adds to the overall effect of horror by trying to convince the readers that he is indeed not mad. He tries to convince us by how thoroughly he plans his murder and is executed. The point of view helps communicate that the theme is madness to the readers because form the beginning the narrator uses repetition, and similes. "Now this is the point. You fancy me mad," the story being told in first person point of view helps us understand the character, and we are able to see what is happening and why he does what he does. The repetition he uses overall in the story trying to convince us that he is …show more content…

While he is looking at the old man outside his room he talks about planning on murdering the old man he also mentions how he cannot see his eye, so he is not driven with anger. One night, as soon as he is able to see the old man's eye he executes his plan to kill the men and that it is the only way he will be able to stop the evil in the old man's eye. "You think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precaution I tool for the concealment of the body," he believes that he is not mad because he is able to hide the body well and leave no trace behind. When he sits down with the police offices right above where he put the body he starts to hear the beating heart of the old man. This causes him to start thinking that everyone can hear the heart beat and he starts to believe the police officers are mocking his crime. The form the narrator starts to describe how he is feeling, puts the readers in the perspective that he has truly become madder than he was at the beginning of the

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