Paper 10: The American Literature.
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Psychological study of tell Tale Heart• Name: Baldaniya Vanita Velabhai• Roll no: 29• Semester: 3• Work: presentation• Email id: [email protected]• Date: 27/10/2015• Submitted by: Smt. S. B. Gardy.• Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University Department of English
About Edgar Allen Poe: (1809- 1849)Edger Allan Poe was an American author,
poet editor, can literary critic, widely regarded as a central figure of romanticism in the united states and American literary as a whole.
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American Practitioners of the short story, and it generally considered the inverter of the detective fiction genre.
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The Fall of House
The Gold Bug
The Purloined
Letter
The Tell Tale Heart
The cask of Amontillado
His Short Stories
The Tell Tale Heart
• Published in 1843.• It is told by unnamed narrator who
endeavours to convince the reader of his sanity, white describing a murder he committed.
• The story is set in a house occupied by the narrator and an old man.
• The main theme in The Tell Tale Heart is Guilt.
Psychological study of Poe’s short story.
The Tell Tale Hearto The Tell Tale Heart is famous short story written
by Edgar Allen Poe. o The Tell Tale Heart serves a prime example
of Poe’s works displaying the elements of death and misery that are prevalent in a majority of his writings.
o The story’s essential characters are the narrator and the old man, both who go unnamed.
Psychological aspect of narrator
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Ego
Superego
The story circles around the narrators desire to kill the old man for reasons that seem unexplainable and insane. Poe’s story is a psychological tale of inner struggles and madness.
Poe predominately wrote of the protagonist’s battles to work out his own inner conflicts. John Chauclaims; “The idea of the protagonist fighting a counterpart occurs so often in Poe’s work that critics often suggest that the battles represent Poe’s attempts to work out, through his own inner conflicts and psychological struggles”.
• Poe’s troubles started with his own deranged childhood. Poe was born to two travelling actors. They both died before Poe reached the age of two, leaving him an orphan.
• He was then adopted by a man whom he did not get along with. Later in life he become a writer and would get Jobs with a newspaper. However, Poe was a drunk and could not long.
• He was also married during this time, but when his wife died, he was left devastated and became depressed and suicidal.
• Several of his stories present these hardships and straggles as the inner assaults of the protagonist.
• The “ The Tell Tale Heart” presents this by way of showing the controversy the narrator has with himself within his own head.
• These arguments of the narrator continue throughout the story.
• As the paper goes on, the narrator argues with himself that he is not mad.
• He starts out by saying: “True!, nervous very, very dreadfully
nervous I had been am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my sense- not destroyed- not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, they am I mad? Hearken! And observe how healthily- how calmly I can tell you the whole story”.
