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The document appears to be about Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". It includes a glossary defining terms from the story like "trifle" and "scantlings". It also has fill-in-the-blank questions using vocabulary from the story, asking the reader to identify words like "mournful" and "stifled". Finally, it provides definitions for these words to aid comprehension of the story.
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Tell Tale Heart.docx
1) The narrator becomes obsessed with an old man's eye and plans to kill him.
2) Over the course of a week, the narrator secretly enters the man's room at midnight and sees that his eye is always closed.
3) On the eighth night, the narrator succeeds in opening the eye with a lantern beam and kills the man in a fit of rage upon seeing it.
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Essay #1 is a Subjective Literary Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart". This short story belongs to the horror/mystery genre of fiction. It was written in 1843, and it tells of a man's obsession with an old man, in particular, the old man's eye.
It is a short story filled with symbolism and psychological drama, so after you have read the text, you will compose a 5-8 paragraph essay (Introduction-Body-Conclusion) analyzing and explaining if, in fact, the narrator's actions are those of a madman or a sane man who knows how to play a madman. You decide.
Your essay is NOT a summary; in fact, none of your writing for this course is a summary. I do not expect you to re-tell the story (plot).
Your essays are designed to present your opinion(s) on the literature and encourage the reader (me) to understand your opinions, criticisms, observations, and analyses.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture –a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually –I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
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This document provides copyright information for Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". It states that the original story is in the public domain and can be legally downloaded. It also notes that this specific PDF version was created by José Menéndez. It then begins including a portion of the story itself, describing the narrator's actions and state of mind as he commits a murder and attempts to conceal it.
Tell tale heart
This document provides a summary of the copyright information for Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". It states that the story, published in 1843, is in the public domain. It also notes that this PDF version was created by José Menéndez. The document then provides an excerpt from the beginning of Poe's story, describing the narrator's state of mind and their plan to kill an old man due to his pale blue eye resembling that of a vulture.
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The narrator describes how he became obsessed with an old man's eye and planned to kill him. He sneaks into the man's room nightly to watch him sleep, waiting for the right moment. On the eighth night, the narrator opens the door and shines a light on the man's eye. Terrified, the old man awakens, causing the narrator to kill him. The narrator then dismembers the body. When police come to investigate, the narrator acts calmly and convinces them nothing is wrong. However, the narrator begins to hear the beating of the dead man's heart and grows increasingly paranoid and distressed until he confesses.
Tell tale heart
The document is a summary of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" from 1843. It describes how a narrator becomes obsessed with an old man's eye and plans to kill him. Over the course of a week, the narrator sneaks into the man's room at midnight and shines a light on his eye, waiting for the opportunity to take his life. One night, the narrator kills the man and dismembers his body, hiding the parts under the floorboards. When police come to investigate a neighbor's report of a shriek, the narrator convinces them nothing is wrong. However, the narrator begins to hear the beating of the dead man's heart growing louder
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THE TELL-TALE HEART
by Edgar Allan Poe
1843
TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --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, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it --oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly --very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously --cautiously (for the hinges creaked) --I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did 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; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him w ...
Tell tale heart
This document is a summary of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". It begins with copyright information noting the story is in the public domain. It then provides a brief summary of the plot in 3 sentences: The narrator commits murder by killing an old man he claims was driven mad by the man's pale blue eye, and dismembers the body. He hides the body under floorboards but is undone by the sound of the dead man's heart beating, which only he can hear. He confesses to police who had come to investigate after neighbors reported screams.
The tel2
The narrator kills an old man he lives with out of hatred for the man's pale blue eye. He dismembers the body and hides the parts under the floorboards. When police come to investigate a neighbor's report of a shriek, the narrator welcomes them into the home and shows them around, including the room where the man's corpse is hidden, sitting on the spot himself. As they chat, the narrator starts to hear a ringing noise that he realizes is the beating of the dead man's heart under the floorboards.
The tell-tale heart
The narrator kills an old man who he believes is watching him with an evil eye. He carefully plans the murder and sneaks into the man's room each night for a week to try and kill him while he sleeps. On the eighth night, the narrator succeeds in killing the man by smothering him with a bed. Police later come to investigate after a neighbor reports hearing a shriek. The narrator manages to convince the officers that nothing is wrong, but then they begin to hear the beating of the old man's heart under the floorboards. The narrator confesses to the murder.
Vea
The narrator describes how he came to kill an old man he lived with out of a strange obsession with the man's pale blue eye. He details how over a week's time he carefully planned and carried out opening the man's door and shining a light on his eye each night. On the eighth night when the man awoke, the narrator killed him but took great care to dismember and hide the body. When the police come to investigate after a neighbor reported screams, the narrator fools them into believing the old man is away from home. However, the beating of the old man's heart hidden below can still be heard, revealing the narrator's crime.
Vea
The narrator describes how he came to kill an old man he lived with out of a strange obsession with the man's pale blue eye. He details how over a week's time he carefully planned and carried out opening the man's door and shining a light on his eye each night. On the eighth night, when he goes to open the door, his thumb slips and wakes the old man. Later, when police come to investigate a neighbor's report of a shriek, the narrator hosts them in the room while the old man's corpse lies beneath the floorboards, the sound of his beating heart driving the narrator to confess.
Analysis of the story
The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of an unnamed narrator who murders an old man for what he perceives as a "vulture eye." The narrator insists he is not mad, but his behavior and speech indicate otherwise. He dismembers the body and hides it under the floorboards. When police come to investigate, the narrator's guilt manifests as the sound of the old man's heart beating, which only he can hear. He confesses to the crime, demonstrating that his madness led to his downfall.
After reading both assigned short answer question.pdf
This document provides details about two short stories that students were assigned to read and answer questions about: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" by Haruki Murakami. For each story, it lists several questions about point of view, themes, symbols, and characters. It then provides a brief summary of the plot of "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" to give context for answering the questions. The document is assigning analysis of key elements of the two stories to the students.
Tell tale heart
The narrator hears a noise coming from beneath the floorboards that only he can hear. He becomes increasingly paranoid and distressed by the noise, which he realizes is the beating heart of the man he murdered and hid under the floor. He had dismembered and concealed the body there after killing the man, but the heart continues to beat loudly, audibly to the narrator alone. He struggles to maintain his composure in front of the police officers he has invited into the home, but eventually shouts for them to tear up the floorboards, admitting to the murder.
The tell
The narrator becomes obsessed with the old man he lives with and his "pale blue eye, with a film over it." Over a week, he sneaks into the man's room at midnight, planning to kill him. On the eighth night, the old man awakens, and the narrator kills him. He dismembers the body and hides the parts, then welcomes police investigating a neighbor's scream. When a knocking sound grows louder, the narrator confesses to the murder.
Telltale heart
This document contains a summary of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" retold by Helen Sillett and Jerry Stemach. It is presented in two parts. Part one describes how the narrator becomes obsessed with an old man's eye and plans to kill him, carefully gaining his trust beforehand. He finally kills the man by smothering him with a bed. Part two details how the narrator dismembers and hides the body, but is eventually driven mad by the sound of the old man's heart, which he insists the police officers can hear too. He confesses to the murder.
Nightmare-Touch By Lafcadio Hearn © 2005 b y h t t p .docx
Nightmare-Touch
By Lafcadio Hearn
© 2005 b y h t t p : / / w w w . H o r r o r M a s t e r s . c o m
What is the fear of ghosts among those who believe in ghosts?
All fear is the result of experience,—experience of the individual or of the race,—experience
either of the present life or of lives forgotten. Even the fear of the unknown can have no other
origin. And the fear of ghosts must be a product of past pain.
Probably the fear of ghosts, as well as the belief in them, had its beginning in dreams. It is a
peculiar fear. No other fear is so intense; yet none is so vague. Feelings thus voluminous and dim
are super-individual mostly,—feelings inherited,—feelings made within us by the experience of
the dead.
What experience?
Nowhere do I remember reading a plain statement of the reason why ghosts are feared. Ask
any ten intelligent persons of your acquaintance, who remember having once been afraid of
ghosts, to tell you exactly why they were afraid,—to define the fancy behind the fear;—and I
doubt whether even one will be able to answer the question. The literature of folk-lore—oral and
written—throws no clear light upon the subject. We find, indeed, various legends of men torn
asunder by phantoms; but such gross imaginings could not explain the peculiar quality of ghostly
fear. It is not a fear of bodily violence. It is not even a reasoning fear,—not a fear that can readily
explain itself,—which would not be the case if it were founded upon definite ideas of physical
danger. Furthermore, although primitive ghosts may have been imagined as capable of tearing
and devouring, the common idea of a ghost is certainly that of a being intangible and
imponderable.1
Now I venture to state boldly that the common fear of ghosts is the fear of being touched by
ghosts,—or, in other words, that the imagined Supernatural is dreaded mainly because of its im-
agined power to touch. Only to touch, remember—not to wound or to kill.
But this dread of the touch would itself be the result of experience,—chiefly, I think, of
prenatal experience stored up in the individual by inheritance, like the child’s fear of darkness.
And who can ever have had the sensation of being touched by ghosts? The answer is simple:—
Everybody who has been seized by phantoms in a dream.
Elements of primeval fears—fears older than humanity—doubtless enter into the child-terror
of darkness. But the more definite fear of ghosts may very possibly be composed with inherited
results of dream—pain,—ancestral experience of nightmare. And the intuitive terror of super-
natural touch can thus be evolutionally explained.
Let me now try to illustrate my theory by relating some typical experiences.
II
When about five years old I was condemned to sleep by myself in a certain isolated room, there-
after always called the Child’s Room. (At that time I was scarcely ever mentioned by name, but
1 I ma ...
The tell tale heart
The narrator recounts how he came to kill an old man who he lived with. He insists that he is not mad, but killed the man due to an intense dislike of the man's eye. Over the course of a week, the narrator secretly entered the man's room at night and observed him sleeping, waiting for an opportunity to kill him without being detected. On the eighth night, the old man awoke and detected the narrator's presence at the door, filling him with terror. The narrator took pleasure in the man's fear and terror in the moments before killing him.
raven
The document is a lesson plan for analyzing Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven." It includes instructions for students to rewrite stanzas of the poem in prose, identify literary devices like rhyme and symbolism, and present their analysis to the class. Students are asked to explore their own fears in a journal entry and consider how Poe used such themes in the gloomy narrative poem.
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- 1. The tell-tale heart By: Edgar Allan Poe Glossary Trifle: something of very little importance. Synonyms: bauble, toy; fritter. Scantlings: beam of wood; a timber of a relatively slight width and thickness, as a stud or rafter in a house frame. Origin: 1520-1530- Middle English – Old French. Crevice: Crack, gap, fissure. Can be confused with: crevasse. Stealthy: Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed. Word formation: Stealthier, stealthiest. Fill in the blank Complete the sentences using the words that you find in the box Vehemently Mournful Stifled Mockery Vexed Hastily 1- And this I did 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; for it was not the old man who ____________ me, but his Evil Eye. 2- It was not a groan of pain or of grief—oh, no!—it was the low _____________sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. 3- And it was the _____________ influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel—although he neither saw nor heard—to feel the presence of my head within the room. 4- The night waned, and I worked ______________, but in silence. 5- I talked more quickly—more _______________; but the noise steadily increased. 6- They heard!—they suspected!—they knew!—they were making a _____________ of my horror!
- 2. Definitions Mockery: Showing your contempt by derision. Stifled: Restrained, Squelched. Mournful: Filled with or evoking sadness. Hastily: In a hurried or hasty manner. Vehement: Marked by a strong feeling or emotion, something intense or energetic. Vex: Disturb the peace of mind of: afflict with mental agitation or distress. Photo recognizer