NAME: PIPAVAT GOPICLASS:M.A SEM 3SUBMITTED TO :DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH BHAVNAGAR UNITOPIC NAME: ‘The Tell Tale Heart’ as a design of madness

Introduction:

Born on 19 January, 1809

Died on 7 October 1849

SUMMARY This story is about a young man who knows an

older man with an eye like an eagle that as he says haunts him and gives him horror. When Edgar realizes he cant take it anymore he cracks and spies on him and figures out how he can kill him.

The heartbeat makes him lose his mind and he kills the old man. show up stay and chat, he cracks and confesses and shows them under the floorboard where But when he thinks he is slick and accomplished the police the old mans body lays

•Internal Conflict:

“Why would they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if exited to fury by the observations of the men - but the noise steadily increased. Oh God! What could I do?”

This is an internal conflict because the argument the character is having is happening inside his own head.

•External Conflict:

An external conflict is the battle between a character in a story and any outside force.

“And I did this for seven long nights- every night just at midnight- but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work.”

This is an external conflict between the main character and time.

•Overstatement

An overstatement is when a statement is exaggerated.

“I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle...”

This is an example of overstatement because it is impossible not to move a muscle for an hour.

The Tell Tale Heart design of madness:

Poe use his word economically in the “The Tell Tale heart” in it one of his short stories to provided a paranoia and mental deterioration.

Heighten the murderer's obsessive with specific and entities are the old man ‘s eye, the heartbeat and his own claim to sanity. Narrator motivation was neighbor passion or desire for money but rather a fear of the man’s pale blue eye’s.

Psychologically aspect of narrator:

This story illuminates the psychologically contradiction that contributed a murderous. Id, ego, and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the activity and interaction our mental life is described. model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the superego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part of ego or super ego

Madness

The main evidence of the character madness is found in the

“No buddy I now grew very pare” narrator is clearly insane but he is not

attempting to function in the real wordThe word “mad” does not occur in this

passage, but is found at other place in The tell tale heart.

• “TRUE! --Nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”he is facing problem regarding his decision to murder the old man?”

That caused the eyes of the to old man to become a fixation, a monomania for the madman.

For seven nights, the narrator opens the door of the old man's room, in order to shine a sliver of light onto the "evil eye“.

The narrator described the eyes as being like the eyes of vulture and eyes represent the window into the mind and soul of the narrator.

The old man's vulture-eye is always closed, making it impossible to "do the work“

He just wants to kill this eye. It is not possible for a mental men and they have problem in to “Evil eyes.”

Almighty God!- no, no! They heard- they suspected!- They knew were a mockery of my horror!

Then the narrator confess and he accept that kill old man. Because they suffering from guilt and not subside.

In reality the beating heart was probably his own beat in response to the guilt. Finally narrator expected the crime.

So it is reflected that the mental condition of narrator/madness/ servant was depressed. Guilt or madness is major theme and horror story. Unnamed narrator or they are kill to the old man.