1. The Tell Tale Heart
Ryan 26
Patrick 31
Jared 40
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2. Content Character Introduction Summary Symbolism
Comparison with Minister’s Black Veil
Gothic Tradition

3. Characters
&
Summary

4. Unnamed Narrator MAD!!! Unaware of his madness Narcissistic Violent
Acute senses
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5. The Old Man (unnamed)
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Kind
Timid
Careful

6. Exposition Claims that he isn’t mad A helpful disease Loves old man
The old man’s eye haunts him
Decides to kill him
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7. Rising Action (Days 1-7) Sneaks in the old man’s room at night
Observes him for a week
Always careful and sly
Proud of his cautiousness
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8. Rising Action (Day 8 00:00~4:00)
Accidentally wakes the old man
Waits for the old man to sleep
Hears growing heartbeat
Kills old man
Dismembers corpse
Hides corpse
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9. Rising Action (Day 8 4:00~) The police find narrator
The police were satisfied
Narrator chats with the police
Hears a sound
Sound continues to grow louder
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10. Climax The sound grows so loud the narrator cannot bear it
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
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11. Symbolism

12. The Eye
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He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it.
I saw it with perfect distinctness --all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones;
→ Clinically, this description suggests a common cataract -- not a reason to murder the old man.

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14. The Evil Eye superstitious power in some folk cultures
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superstitious power in some folk cultures
Born of jealousy or distaste  bring bad luck or injury
“the look a human gives to another being (human or other) to cause them harm”
The evil-eye amulet in Turkey

15. The Evil Eye
“The ruins of Pompeii produced bronze wind chimes (tintinnabula) that featured the phallus to ward off the evil eye and other malevolent influences…”
-- Wikipedia
Phallus: erect penis → wholeness and power
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16. The Evil Eye & the Lack of the Phallus (A Doppelganger)
The old man = double who reveals the narrator’s “lack of the phallus”
The narrator can’t allow this lack to be exposed (to protect his ego)
The double must be murdered

17. The “Eye” vs. “The I” (Another Doppelganger)
The narrator and the old man show striking similarities
Examples:
The old man sits “up in the bed, listening; -- just as I have done”
When the old man groans “a groan of mortal terror,” the narrator says “...I knew the sound well… it has welled up from my own bosom… I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt...”
The narrator can hear the old man’s heart in his own heartbeat

18. The Watchful Eye of Providence
Implies that the old man’s eye had “exceptional penetration to discover secret sin”
After hiding the corpse “ that no human eye -- not even his --could have detected any thing wrong.”
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19. The Number 3 3 planks were removed for the corpse
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3 planks were removed for the corpse
it took 3 hours to dissect and hide the corpse
there were 3 policemen
3 has been associated with the eye in Poe’s "The Ancient Mariner”
The triangle is a symbol of the Triune God
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20. The 8 Nights The number “eight”:
Meaning in The Bible → a new beginning, as shown in Jesus’ resurrection
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21. The Beating Heart Symbolizes the narrator’s conscience / guilt
Actually the narrator’s heart beating
On the eighth night: “... there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.”
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22. The Beating Heart
“...Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment! --do you mark me well? I have told you that I am nervous: so I am...a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror...”

23. The Beating Heart
“I felt that I must scream or die! --and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! --
‘Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! --here, here! --it is the beating of his hideous heart!’"
The narrator’s nervousness → rapidly beating heart → admits his secret sin
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24. Connections with The Minister’s Veil
Black

25. Setting The Tell Tale Heart When: 8 nights
Where: A building, mostly in a room
The Minister’s Black Veil
When: A few decades
Where: A religious village

26. Narrator The Minister’s Black Veil The Tell Tale Heart Third Person
Unclear of Hooper’s thoughts and intentions
Omniscient point of view
The Tell Tale Heart
First person
Unreliable or irrational
Showcase of narrator’s madness
Odd perspective
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27. Theme The Minister’s Black Veil : Sin Isolation Hypocrisy
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The Tell Tale Heart :
Sin
Guilt
Madness
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28. The “Veil” The Minister’s Black Veil: Black Veil→ sin (pride)
The Tell Tale Heart :
Hideous Veil→ sin (killing)
Ex. “All a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones”
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29. Mood & Tone The Tell Tale Heart The Minister’s Black Veil
Gloomy→ the setting(night) and killing
Crazy→ the defense narrator makes when he did sth insane
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The Minister’s Black Veil
Gloomy→ Everyone feels scared when looking at the black veil
Suspenseful→ No one knows why Hooper put on the veil
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30. Ending Announcement The Minister’s Black Veil The Tell Tale Heart
"Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil? I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!"
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The Tell Tale Heart
“ ‘Villains’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! --here, here! --it is the beating of his hideous heart!’ ”
Anger
Disappointment (MBV)
Guilt(TTH)

31. Gothic Elements - The Tell Tale Heart
Unique Setting mostly at midnight
in a dark room
The theme of death and decay
The presence of madness
Terror
Gloomy tone
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32. Madness (of the narrator)
Narrator assumes that “madness is incompatible with rational precision”
Reiterates until it becomes a pattern
→ denies madness while describing mad actions
(Robinson)

33. Gothic Elements - The Minister’s Black Veil
Isolation
Pale bride
Prevailing fear
Suspenseful atmosphere
Darkness (veil)
Mystery
Gloomy tone
Terror
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34. Citations

35. Picture 1: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LT_zoDfd4Bw/maxresdefault.jpg
Miksanek, Tony. The Tell-Tale Heart. N.p., 18 Oct Web. 04 Jan <
Robinson, E. Arthur. "Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 19.4 (1965): JSTOR. Web. 10 Jan

36. Picture 14: https://i. gr-assets. com/images/S/photo. goodreads
"The Antebellum Magazine Edition Project." THE TELL-TALE HEART | The Antebellum Magazine Edition Project. Ed. Kelsey Blackman. The Pioneer, Web. 11 Jan <
Bradley, Jacqueline. “Character Doubles and Barrier Imagery in Poe's Work.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 9, no. 2, 2008, pp. 55–66. JSTOR, Accessed 11 Jan
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Tucker, B. D. “‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and the ‘Evil Eye.’” The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 1 Apr. 1981, pp. 92–98. JSTOR, JSTOR.

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