The
Tell-Tale Heart is a 17th-century s’ well popular and super fabulous
short story of an acclaimed American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. The
cultural criticism and historical background of that certain text display the
picture of the disturbing mindset of that era s’ disturbance, on the accounts
of 17th-century s’ societal circ e.g. the upheaval lineage of
modernity and technological realm in the society. Novel themes and ideas of
supremity had been introduced in the society, like the realization of the unseen
and being coveted on that specific unseen thing. Here, this study is been
folded into the psychological disturbance of the minds of people and that
specific disturbance of mind could be vividly observed by seeking into the
lives of 17th-century s’ people. In this
short story, Poe has written a highfalutin assassination of an old man by the
hands of a psychopath young man.
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“It’s
True! Yes, I HAVE BEEN ILL, very ill”. What will be the certain backdraft
knowledge story or scenario that the writer had put these lines down? The tell-tale
heart by Poe could be analyzed through the lens of the psychoanalytic approach,
the disturbance of mindset, and the psychotic illness of people of that era. As
it is written in 1843, that was the time when the gothic horror upheaval era of
Victorian time was at its peak. That was exactly the period when people started
believing and indulging in Gothicism. The time when Marry Shelley’s
Frankenstein emerged. So this pompously could state the psychology and the
cultural-historical time. The tell-tale heart is merely a psychoneurosis effect
on one man, the terror and harrow
develop on him while seeing the VULTURE-like
eye of an old man that specific VULTURE
word evokes the horror effect in the text. Because vulture is a kind of
predator bird that only eats dead entities.
“First I cut off the
head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of
blood fall on the floor”. The severe brutality
and insanely psychotic condition of the murderer are rhetorically justifying
this short story on the accounts of psychological and harrowed stances present
in this text. While reading Poe s’ this narrative, the kind of dreadful
emotions educe in readers by inspecting the wretched personality of the assassinator.
“Yes! Yes, I killed
him. Pull up the boards and you shall see! I killed him. But why does his heart
not stop beating?! Why does it not stop!?” The
sphere of lunacy, hysteria, and maniac condition of killer could be connoted by
the minute analysis of certain stated lines. As he is in the condition of
psychosis where he completely lost his connection to the real world, thus
started imaging the unheard and unseen scenarios. Although he had killed the
old man, even though he is hearing his heartbeat.
The discussion up to so far is supremely adjustable in the realm of Poe s’ this short story as a colossally psychological and horrorsome portrayal. As Poe s’ majorly writings are related to the menace, terror, and psychopathic, likewise this short story is the ample justification of representation of it as a merely psychological and harrowing story which thrills its readers by evoking the fearsome conditions.
The story is interpreted by Emaan Afroz, one of the team members at the SOL Community.
