' the tell tale heart' as a design of madness

1. NAME: PIPAVAT GOPI
CLASS:M.A SEM 3
SUBMITTED TO :
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH BHAVNAGAR UNI
TOPIC NAME:
‘The Tell Tale Heart’ as a design of madness

2. Introduction:
Born on 19
January, 1809
Died on 7
October 1849

3. SUMMARY
 This story is about a young man who knows an older
man with an eye like an eagle that as he says haunts
him and gives him horror. When Edgar realizes he
cant take it anymore he cracks and spies on him and
figures out how he can kill him.
 The heartbeat makes him lose his mind and he kills
the old man. show up stay and chat, he cracks and
confesses and shows them under the floorboard
where But when he thinks he is slick and
accomplished the police the old mans body lays

4. •Internal Conflict:
“Why would they not be gone? I paced the
floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if exited
to fury by the observations of the men - but
the noise steadily increased. Oh God! What
could I do?”
 This is an internal conflict because the
argument the character is having is happening
inside his own head.

5. •External Conflict:
An external conflict is the battle between a
character in a story and any outside force.
“And I did this for seven long nights- every
night just at midnight- but I found the eye
always closed; and so it was impossible to do
the work.”
This is an external conflict between the main
character and time.

6. •Overstatement
An overstatement is when a statement is
exaggerated.
“I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole
hour I did not move a muscle...”
This is an example of overstatement because it
is impossible not to move a muscle for an
hour.

7. The Tell Tale Heart 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.

8. Heighten the murderer's obsessive with
specific and entities are the old man ‘s eye, the
heartbeat 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. • “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?”

12.  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“.

13. 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.”

14. 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.

15.  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.