Use Of Anxiety And Fear In Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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In the story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe describes anxiety and fear of his character’s to create suspense. For example, “True!~~ nervous~~ very , very dreadfully nervous I had been am ‘’ (Poe 89)! It is evident that the man thinks that people thinks that he is crazy and insane and he is obviously nervous because he killed a man . The man creates more suspense when he says .“And now a new anxiety seized me ~~ the sound would be heard by a neighbor! The old man’s hour had come! With a loud yell , I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room” ( Poe 92). So after waiting eight days he finally get’s to kill him . In the these text examples provided , the man is able to increase the reader's curiosity and build suspense about …show more content…

In the story , the narrator is very creepy and insane . He loves the old man but the old man has a eye like a vulture and its the color is pale blue . So every night he is in the doorway watching his every move and he also plans to kill him. At midnight he just sits there just waiting on the time and chance to kill the old man . On the seventh night when the old man was resting the narrator accidentally hit something and woke up the old man . When the old man woke up he sprung up into the bed and asked who was their . The narrator tried so hard not to breath loudly or hit anything so the old man would not notice that the narrator was in his room . So after that incident, on the eighth night the narrator thought is was a great opportunity to kill the old man when it became midnight he leap on the the old man with a mattress and the old man stuck once and only once and then when the narrator thought he was dead and didn’t the old man didn't move anymore he got off the old man and sat down breathing heavily . When he thought everything was okay it wasn't the police and the neighbors came knocking at the door. The tale tell heart becomes more suspenseful with every thought and idea of the narrator .Suspense is the sense of growing tension , fear, and excitement felt by the readers . The author builds suspense by describing the characters fear , using vivid word , repeating words and phrases and describing a suspenseful setting . The author did an outstanding job in The Tell Tale Heart of building suspense and making the readers eager to read on . The suspense leaves you hungry to learn what would the cops do when the find the old man or do they find him. The author does an excellent job at building suspense by describing his character's fear , using vivid words , using repetition , and setting helping us visualize the frightful

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