Q: The narrator In the “Tell-Tale Heart" Is creative artist. Support or refute the statement.
The Tell-Tale Heart Is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder Is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by cutting it Into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately, the narrator's guilt manifests Itself in the hallucination that the man’s heart is still beating under the floorboards. "The Tell- Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short stories."1 kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour, I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; d just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.".
Poe's finest forte in the story is his development of characters as well as his detailed imagery. With a few words, he can paint a perfect picture of the —and of the characters. -Nervous -very, very
dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses -not destroyed -not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.”
In this first creative line of the story, Poe starts of by having the character deny insanity. Poe's characterization method is original and admirable to other authors. His morbid imagery is also legendary as he writes to describe the stalking of the old man, '..because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel - although he neither saw nor heard -to feel the presence of my head within the room.” The suspenseful story line is a landmark in literature as Poe's flawless writings carry on through generations. So, we conclude that the story is a creative artist.
B.A punjab university 2014
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