The document provides details about the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes the name and contact information of the student submitting a report on the story, along with background on Poe and an overview of the plot. The story is narrated by an unnamed murderer who kills an old man with a "vulture eye" and hides his body under the floorboards. When police investigate a neighbor's report of screams, the narrator's heart beat reveals his guilt despite the police finding no evidence of the crime.

1. ● Name :-Vala Jyotsna T
● Semester :- 3
● Class :- M.A part 2
● Paper Name :- The American Literature.
● Topic :- The Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe.
● RollNo :- 33
● Email Id :- valajyotsna7@gmail.com
● Submitted to :- SMT S.B.Gardi Department of english MKBU.

3. About Edgar Allan poe
✔ He was born on January,in 1809.
✔ Died on 7 October, 1849.
✔ He was an American writer, editor,
and literary critic.
✔ Poe is best known for his poetry
and short stories, particularly his
tales of mystery and macabre.
✔ Poe also wrote satire, humor tales
and hoaxes.

4. His Famous Short Story.
● Tales of Mystery and Imagination
✗ The Tall Tale Heart.
✗ The Black Cat.
✗ The Fall of the house of Usher.
✗ The Cask of Amontillado.
● Tales of Ratiocination
✗ The Gold Bug.
✗ The Purloined Latter.

5. Introduction of “The Tell – Tale
Heart”.
✗ The Tell Tale Heart is a story of Poe.
✗ Published in 1843.
✗ Unknown narrator told the story.
✗ The genre of the story are :-
✔ Gothic,
✔ Short Story and
✔ Horror.

6. Conti...
✗ The narrator describes a Murder he
committed.
✗ The Victim was an old man with
“Vulture Eye”.
✗ Poe has generate a new style of story
– telling.
✗ The Murder is done and now the
Murderer started the story of how he
Murdered.

7. Starting to ending of the story
Story begining with plan to Murder.
Execution.
Shriek.
Dismembered.
Police come / Relaxed and feeling normal.
Quick sound / Beating Heart.
“Villains”.
Booms.

8. Summary
✔ The story starts with an unknown narrator telling the story of a
Murder he has done.
✔ The victime was an old man working with him in his office
and living in the same colony.
✔ The Murderer has an irritation with the eye of an old man. The
old man had never done any wrong with him.
✔ Yet he plot to murder the old man. Seven days he just goes
and observes the old man sleeping in is bad. His eyes were
closed.
✔ He was finding a chance when the old man's eye were open
and he murders him.

9. Conti...
✔ On the eight day he got a chance and the narrator kills him and than he makes
pieces of the body and hide them into floorboards.
✔ When a neighbour of the old man hears the scream and call the police, and
the police was comes and the narrator invited them to investigate that they
wan't found any evidence of the murder.
✔ The Police set on the right place where the body was hidden yet they didn't
suspect anything wrong.
✔ But while talking, narrator hears the heart and sound increases more and more
and than he feeling of guilty and he confesses his crime.
✔ At the end of the story murderer declares that he is responsible for the old
man's death and the story end.

10. Character
✗ Main character :-
● The Murderer.
● The Victim.
✗ Minor Character :-
● The Caller (Neighbour).
● The Policemen.

11. Image of Character.

12. Setting and Point of View.
 The story takes place in the Victim's house in the duration of
eight days.
 This story can be considered a very long flashback, for The
Murderer switchs from present to past tense.
 The narrator focuse on the hours of the night, particularly
midnight.
✗ Point of View :-
✔ This story is narrated in first person point of view.
➢ “I, He, She, They, etc.”
✔ It is narrated by the Murderer.

13. Title and Theme.
✗ Title :-
● Tell-Tale:- Clearly showing something, or indicating
something that is secret or hidden.
✗ Theme :-
● Main theme in “The Tell Tale Heart” is “Guilt”.
● Poe is trying to convince the readers that the main
character feels Guilty for killing the old man.
● Through out the story beating heart is symbolizes
“Guilt.

14. Rising Action.
✔ The first rising action occurs when The Murderer begins
to constantly check on The Victim during midnight.
✗ The Murderer carefully opens the door every night, very
slowly. He very carefully opens that door as if possessed
by a deity of precision.
✔ The second incident in which the tention builds up is
when The Policemen show up.
✗ They begin searching the house, and reader might expect
them to find the corpse of The Victim.

15. Cites work
● http://dipaliparmar244.blogspot.in/2016/11/assignment-p
● Class notes.

16. Thank you...