The people were beginning to have an interest in moral insanity (Bynum, 1989). Poe’s story is culturally significant as it shows how the society was during his time. Poe’s s misery and suffering reverberates in his works and in popular culture today long after his death. His childhood was sad, he experienced death of his loved at a young age, and the deaths influenced his works, which have the theme of grisly deaths (Meyer, 2000). After their death, he lived with John and Frances Allan, a childless couple. His parents David and Elizabeth died before Poe celebrated his second birthday. The author of the story is Edgar Allan Poe an American author who was born on Januin Boston Massachusetts. However, when the police came to the Old Man’s house he gives himself away to the police because he hears the heart of the old man beating behind the floorboard and this incident may suggest that the narrator is in fact insane. The killer claims he is sane and goes into details to explain how he executed the murder. The story falls under the gothic category because it is a horror story that tells how a young narrator kills an old man in cold blood and dismembers his body in order to conceal his crime. The story falls under the gothic genre (Snodgrass, 2005). He plans the murder, executes it, and hides the body of the old man in the floorboard. The narrator kills an old man who had a blue vulture like eye that made the narrator very uncomfortable.
The Tell Tale Heart is a short story about a nameless narrator who commits murder. He was the first person to use the term ‘short story’
The story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' has been filmed more than 40 times The narrator admits his crime to the police
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