Na Name- Nisha Dhiman A.study- M.A

sem-3 Roll No- 19

Sub- American literatureTopic- The Tell Tale Heart: As a design of

madness Guided by- Heenaba zala

Submitted to- Department of EnglishMaharaja krishnakumar sinhji Bhavnagar

university

Introduction

“The Tell Tale Heart” is first person unnamed narrative.

The story is set in a house occupied by the narrator and an old man.

One of the main theme of Edger Allen Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart is madness.

Introduction

Born on 19 January, 1809

Died on 7 October 1849

Design of madness

Poe use his word economically in the “The Tell Tale heart” in it one of his short stories to provided a paranoia and mental deterioration.

Heighten the murderer's obsessive with specific and entities are the old man ‘s eye, the heart beat and his own claim to sanity.

Narrator motivation was neighbor passion or desire for money but rather a fear of the man’s pale blue eye’s.

Psychologically aspect of narrator

This story illuminates the psychologically contradiction that contributed a murderous. Id, ego, and super-ego are the three parts of the psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche; they are the activity and interaction our mental life is described. model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the superego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part of ego or super ego

Madness

The main evidence of the character madness is found in the

“No buddy I now grew very pare”

narrator is clearly insane but he is not attempting to function in

the real word.

• The word “mad” does not occur in this passage, but is found at other place in The tell tale heart.

• “TRUE! --Nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”he is facing problem regarding his decision to murder the old man

That caused the eyes of the to old man to become a fixation, a

monomania for the madman.

For seven nights, the narrator opens the

door of the old man's room, in order to shine

a sliver of light onto the "evil eye“.

The narrator described the eyes as being like the eyes of vulture and eyes represent the window into the mind and soul of the narrator.The old man's vulture-eye is always closed, making it impossible to "do the work“He just wants to kill this eye. It is not possible for a mental men and they have problem in to “Evil eyes.”

Almighty God!- no, no! They heard- they suspected!- They knew were a mockery of my horror!Then the narrator confess and he accept that kill old man. Because they suffering from guilt and not subside. In reality the beating heart was probably his own beat in response to the guilt. Finally narrator expected the crime.

Conclusion

So it is reflected that the mental condition of narrator/madness/ servant was depressed.Guilt or madness is major theme and horror story. Unnamed narrator or they are kill to the old man.