Voice In The Tell Tale Heart

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Will the audience feel confident or lie when someone narrates something? If they are the speaker in "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, they will must tell your own murder. The story of 1843 tells the motives behind the brutal murder of a young man which later turns into a 2008 TV drama starring Sebastian Montoya. Therefore, you can see what where the motives and actions of killing that make many people afraid through the first person voice over narration. Film and art often use the first person storyteller to express a viewpoint of a character or the head of a scene. Consider, when we hear someone tell their own story, we do not really know who they are. We see their thoughts through what they say. The first narrator can show us what …show more content…

Produced in 2008, this film feature Ryan Shovey as the servant, a young man living in the same house as an old man. At the beginning of the film, the audience watches him write a diary, and anxiety appears in the narrator’s first person voice over between (1:23-1:46) and (2:56-3:25). He did not announce his madness and he now relates the story calmly at 3:29. As he did every day, he goes to wake up the old man after the evening, at which point he switches to explaining the reason for his murderous behavior because of the old man's blue eyes at 4:07 (until 4:43). He wants to explain the audience that he did not need the old man’s treasure and he really wanted to take care of the old man at 4:50 (until 5:10). At 5:41, he visits the old man at midnight and comes back in the morning. Then, he simulates the process of killing the old man that night from killing the old man, cutting him into pieces "...and smiled gaily to find the deed so far done but for many minutes a heartbeat on with a muffled sound this. However, did not vex me it would not be heard live along at length it ceased old was deed. There was no pulsation he was stoned dead this I would trouble if you still think me mad, he will think so no time when I describe the wise because I think for the concealment of God the night waned, and I want to say but in silence merciful I dismembered the corpse. (Poe)”, and finally hiding them under the floor "I then took up three planks from the flooring and deposited all between the bag.... I then replace the boards so cleverly so cunningly that no human eye not even his could detected anything. There was nothing to watch out no stain of any kind no blood spot whatever I had been too weary for what the top cut ... (Poe)" between (9:20-19:57). At 10:45, He is later haunted by the old man, telling everything he did and pointing to the police

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