The “The Tell Tale Heart” is one of the famous short stories created by a well-known American Poet, Edgar Allan Poe. It was punished at The Pioneer in the January 1843 edition, and was been reprinted by The Broadway Journal in the August 23rd, 1845 issue. This story is a first person narration that confesses a murder, which has a psychological complexity matter and is completely similar to the authors’ deal of his life. The protagonist insanity is seen prior in the story where he tells about his madness, what have disturbed him, and what made him do a motiveless crime.Poe’s writings like the “The Tell Tale Heart” mirrored to his personal life, family, and habits. Poe is an orphan raised by his uncle John Allan, who never fostered him for his college and who turn out to be the reason of his depression and triggered him to end up being alcoholic, addicted to drugs, and delivered certain judicious axiom, and finally his sexuality. Not only that, it upsets him as well from the effect of the death of his wife, Elizabeth Poe, on their “gifted son. Since then, most of Poe’s writings are all about death and mysteries.
In the story the narrator speaks in which he defends his obsession of his psychotic self however admit to have killed a man. He stated in the beginning of the story that he loved the old men that he never wronged him, that he think its is the eye that made him go insane, where as he describe it as “the eye of the vulture–a pale blue eye, with film over it”. Furthermore, this madness made him ambush to the old mans chamber and each nightly mysterious visits grow profound. His insanity becomes absolute where he decided to take the old mans life. This persuasive logic of time tells us his determination in getting rid of the cause of his frenzies. Captivating his mentality in scrutinizing his victim gradually thorough him and his lunatic personality.
In some countries the eye symbolize as an evil eye that this might made the narrator having phobia in seeing it from the old man. Some people believed that this evil eye have the power to harm people not only physically of their own but also their possessions as well as those people that surrounds him by just merely looking at them. This also gives misfortune and unidentified illnesses. Thus, this initiates him to think that this old mans eyes evokes a dark hidden side. Regardless of some understanding of the word “eye”, some critics thought, as it is a letter “I” that identifies as him. The internal “I” that represents his loneliness, death, problematic state of his relationship towards his self-consciousness and self-unconsciousness.
The narrator never implies the details on how he murdered the old man. He just stated that he “pulled the heavy bed over him”. Hence, at the end of the passage it one by one said what he did to the old mans corpse. To be able not to detect any wrongdoing or foul play, the narrator had dismembers the dead body in a tub so that there is no mess or bloodstains to clean up afterwards. He buried the cut pieces of arms, limbs, and head, underneath the floorboards of the old man’s room. This psychotic action perceives his mentality that he has to hide the unlawful operation that he planned for about eight perplexing nights.
The idea of the title of the story implies to what had happen in the parable that came to the fact on how he turn over himself and confess to the authorities of what he had done early that evening. The strange sound that he had heard beneath the old mans chamber made him panic and think that it is the old mans heart that arise his guilt and strongly drives him unto his collapse insanity. However, not literally he heard the heart beat of the old man but to a certain extent it is his own heart, which he had heard. When his success takes its place, his very being separate him from illusion and reality. He gain his consciousness, his normal being stands up in his entity where it made him realize the good and bad and subjective himself to pay for what he had done.
Whenever a good child dies, an angel of God comes down from heaven, takes the dead child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with him over the places the child has loved during his life. Then he gathers a large handful of flowers that he carries up to the Almighty that they may bloom more brightly in heaven than they do on earth. And the Almighty presses the flowers to His heart, but He kisses the flower that pleases Him best, and it receives a voice and is able to join the song of the chorus of bliss.
