Psychotic Strategies

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Jasmine De La Cruz
Professor Wolfe Markham
English Comp II
30 magisterial 2012
Psychotic Strategies
In Edgar Allan Poes story, The Tell-Tale Heart, it is obvious that the fibber
of this story is paranoiac and consciously corroding. The reader understands that there is
reasoning as to wherefore the vote counter wanted the gray-haired man dead, new(prenominal) than his corruptive Eye.
Through Poes use of literary devices, such as, irony, symbolism, and imagery, the reader
is adequate to understand the cashiers ultimate insanity.
It is ironic how the narrator keeps repeating that he is not ma. He tries to prove
his sanity by staying calm, but in the end he gets consumed by his ingest unconscious and
confesses his own deed. The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I
was singularly at ease(41). The narrator successfully convinces the police he is
innocent, but the fact that the narrator is mad reveals the truth in the end. The narrators
obsession over the old mans eye is as well ironic. The narrator didnt have any other reason
to kill this man, other than his eye. I loved the old man. He had n perpetually wronged me. He
had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.(39) The narrator had no anger
towards this old man.



One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-- a pale blue eye, with

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a hit over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran

cold; and so by degrees-- very gradu exclusivelyy-- I made up my mid to gravel the life of the old
man(39). As a reader all we know is that the mans blue eyes bothered the narrator,
so the narrator used the obsessive concern as a theme to take care of the problem.The
narrators feelings towards the old mans blue eyes were decently enough to lead him to
his complete insanity and murdering the innocent, old man. Poe also coveys irony in his
short story when the narrator claimed that the workweek before he killed the old man, he was
the nicest that he has ever been towards him. The narrator shows...If you want to get a full essay, assign it on our website: Orderessay



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