The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
For this assignment, I have chosen to do an analysis on the title: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. I have chosen this short horror-fiction story because I am familiar with reading the story before and the story itself really gives off creepy and eerie feelings while reading it. The basic plot of the story tells of a man (the narrator) who goes insane after murdering an old man with a vulture eye. He hides the dead body under the floor boards and as time passes he becomes paranoid and in his thought he is haunted by the sound of heartbeating where he has hidden the old man. In my interpretation, the story itself is disturbing in how the narrator describes his thoughts and actions of how he carefully plans the murder of the old man. For the specific approach, I will use psychoanalytic criticism to further analyze the narrator's thoughts of how he may have felt when encountering the old man and perhaps his subconscious played the significant role which led him to kill the old man. According to the wikipedia, psychoanalytic criticism can yied useful clues to the sometime baffling symbols, actions, and settings in a literary work. In addition to that, this literary approach is where critics see the text as if it were a kind of dream. This approach may be able to help me in understanding what goes in the narrator's mind and why he feels guilt towards his actions in the end.
External Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart
http://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalytic_criticism
Image link:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Clarke-TellTaleHeart.jpeg
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