On the eighth night, the narrator finally finds his master awake and kills him by suffocating him. Since it is the master’s eyes that the narrator loathes, he doesn’t want to kill him while he is asleep. The narrator visits the master’s room every night at midnight for seven consecutive days and just watches him sleep. As if, he was only waiting for an opportunity to attack them and it was this look of his master’s eyes that compelled the narrator to murder him. He describes his master’s eyes to be like a vulture, stark and scavenger-like. It was only his eyes that the narrator could not stand. He then goes on to introduce his master and how he did not hate him, He loved his master and the latter was a good man. The story begins with the narrator repetitively saying that he is not mad and if he was mad he wouldn’t remember the entire story. Edgar Allen Poe died on 7th October, 1849. Some of his famous works include ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Black Cat’, ‘Annabel Lee’, ‘The Raven’, etc. He is also considered to be the founding figure of the detective fiction and science fiction genre. Best known for his mystery and horror stories, Poe was also an eminent figure of the Romanticism movement in the United States. Having done with his master, the narrator tries to hide his crime by weaving a web of lies and deceiving the police officers but the conscience of a man is a funny thing and often gives away, no matter how hard you try.īorn on Januin Boston, Edgar Allen Poe was an American writer, poet and literary critic.

Driven mad and frustrated by the look in his master’s eyes, the narrator commits a gruesome crime. The narrator is employed by a man whose vulture eyes make him the object of the narrator’s detestation. Poe’s short stories always have a horror or gothic theme and likewise ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ also creates an environment which is scary, dark and without a doubt mysterious. It talks of committing a crime and what circumstances such actions land one into. “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”ĭepicting the after effects of a gruesome deed, Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is considered to be one of the classic stories of all times.

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