The Test Of Time In 'Tell-Tale Heart'

Tell Tale Heart
In the mid 1800’s horror story Tell Tale Heart, the main character and caretaker of a very old man who just happens to have cataract in one of his eyes. Although now in the 21st century we may have an easy and short surgery for this, In this man's time it will ether be with him for the rest of his life or he will have to get the eye removed. Although in this story there is nothing the old man could of done about the problem his caretaker decided to, in a way take it into his own hands which may not be the right or sane way to undergo this issue.. So through the course of this story the main character decides to watch the man at night while he sleeps what his intentions of doing so far in the story before his plans reveal it is unknown as of what he wants to do but so far we know it won't be good. This story tells us that the caretaker has a problem and he doesn't like the man's eye . What he decides to do about it may be a grave decision and what

he does will guilt him into doing “the right thing”

This story takes place somewhere in a village, we know the narrator is in some form of a house and it shows us that he keeps it some what locked up such as closed blinds closed doors exc. In this story Tell Tale Heart we know he lives somewhat far from this village and that he is on the outskirts. I think the characters in this story are very realistic because the old man for example there is many people with cataract “my grandpa had it last week” it's very realistic and normal for older people, as well as the caretaker he is insane and he doesn't have sanity anymore which has happened to many people “even the author of this story” which shows how it could potentially happen or has happened. We also know in this story the main character is a nameless narrator, an old man and the police who enter near the end of the story, that they were called by a neighbor whose suspicions had been aroused upon hearing a scream in the night. With that scream we know that something will happen “it almost foreshadows it” because of how they're fighting, it gives details to leading to another action such as the banging around and the bed flipping this is all leading to the climax this shows us parts of the rising action in the plot of this story. This shows how he can make all of his events line up into sequence.

The source of horror for the Tell tale heart is in the characters, he is a crazy psychopath with an obsession for watching his victims at night. The main character and source of all the horror in this short story is the caretaker, a man who takes care of an elderly person. The old man has a cataract and that annoys the main character so he watches it, he watches him at night and on the final night he goes into his room and overturns the bed and suffocates the old man to death with one of his pillows. If that wasn't enough after he was dead he chopped him up into pieces and hid him in the floorboards of his own house . But then he is condemned by the constant sound of his victim's heartbeat during the interrogation , which later in the story leads him into confessing and telling the police officers that he killed and hid the old man before they got there earlier that night.
I think this story Tell tale heart has most definitely stood against the test of time, and I know that because we are reading it today in a popular textbook that many other schools have and use.

This story shows that it can stand the test of time no matter what happens to the author or what happens in the story even if it has different word choice than we are used to in the twenty-first century and in 2016 all of our stories are complicated and well thought through, I think that tell tale heart is an perfect example of you have to do to create a story that will last for generations. This work of literature was written in 1843 and author Edgar Allen Poe was at an age of 34 years old at this book's completion, Tell-Tale heart has lasted 173 years and I think it can last for another century at least at the rate it is currently going because all of the “young” readers read it and can tell they're kids and their kids exc. This shows this story would last the test of time because we are still reading it

today.

The literature short work of Tell tale heart is a partial truth, and I know this because in the real world today there are people who go insane on the daily around the world. With many people who also get cataract this story could've happened and might of happened because of all of its components that are possible. If someone has a cataract they get surgery and are on their feet immediately and driving within two to three days which is not a long time especially for an eye surgery. In the times of this story there it was hard or impossible to successfully get this surgery done.

There is some very original work done in Tell Tale Heart, and I know this because at the time of this story things like psychopaths and villains in stories were almost just being popular and made it center stage for readers, and that is why it is so popular and original.
I also know this story is original because this was one of the first of its nature and in the context of horror made one of the first stories about a stalker killing someone. This shows that there is a huge fanbase for stories following after this and how it has used the horror topic to make us wonder what happens after they tell us he is at the psychiatric facility. This shows why I believe this story is very original at the time.

In conclusion the work of fiction or could possibly be realistic fiction to the time is a very good book, movie or even short story to read. While analyzing this story I learned more about medical advances in the 1800’s in the field of vision and cataract. I learned you don't have to be someone super famous even knowing who wrote it is famous and that you can turn almost anything into a work of horror in literature. This story for example took an ordinary eye problem from the 1800’s and made tons of dialogue from it making it this great story to read.