The Tell-Tale Heart

1. The Tell-Tale Heart p. 353 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s9V8aQu4c&safe=active http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpEIMERxgi4&safe=active

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s9V8aQu4c&safe=active

4. Mood • “All in vain; because Death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim”(357).

5. What does the eye symbolize?

10. Internal vs. External conflict Is the conflict with the narrator primarily internal or external?

11. Cite an example of Internal conflict • Example:

12. Cite an example. of External conflict • Example

14. What type of irony? Verbal, Situational, Dramatic • “…in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim”(358).

15. What type of irony? • “Was it possible they heard not? …They heard!-they suspected!-they knew! they were making a mockery of my horror!”(359).

16. What is Poe’s style? • 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.

17. Verbal irony • Over-acuteness of the senses 357 • Paraphrase: Look how calmly I can tell you the whole story!!!!!!

19. Mood/ AtmosphereThe overall feeling from a placeex. Scary, sad, joyful

20. Mood/Atmosphere: creepy, suspenseful, scary, paranoid, madness • Imagery: “a single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and full upon the vulture eye”(357). • “His room was as black as pitch” (355). • Mood: “dreadful silence of that old house” “dead hour”(357)

21. Verbal Irony • “Villains!” (359) The narrator calls the police villains. • Paraphrase: put in your own words • He claims he’s not mad, but he’s talking about hearing voices in hell • He says he can say it calmly, but he’s yelling.

22. Situational Irony • He kills because of an eyeball • Caretaker kills patient.

23. Situational Irony • Caretaker murders old man • Motives: money, revenge, anger, passion • Murders because of an eye ball.

24. Dramatic Irony • “Who’s there?” Old man no idea • Death stalks him… • Grew louder, louder, louder Heart beat • Beating of his hideous heart

25. Situational Irony • The caretaker murders the old man. • Murders over an eyeball

26. “… What type of irony? • there came a knocking at the street door, I went down with a light heart-for what had I now to fear?”(358).

27. Style- Author’s style • Style: repeats words like stone dead, quicker, louder to emphasize the beating of the old man’s heart.

28. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad?” (355)

29. Verbal Irony • “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? (354). • “Hearken! and observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story”(354). • “I loved the old man”(354). • “You should have seen how wisely I proceeded“(355).

30. Dramatic Irony • …in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim”(358) • “Was it possible they heard not? …They heard!-they suspected!-they knew! they were making a mockery of my horror!”(359).

31. Point of View-1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient

32. 1st person • “I” point of view • Intimate, but not trustworthy • -

33. Symbol • Eye

34. “Do You Think I’m Mad?”Who is Speaking Here?

35. Edgar Allan Poe?

36. Is The Protagonist Male or Female?

37. Harken! And observe how healthily – how calmly I can…

38. A eye with a _____________over It

39. Perry Mason, “And Precisely What Time Did the Protagonist Enter the Old Man’s Room Every Night?

40. How Does This Picture Relate?How does it not Relate?Remember, You’re Under Oath!

41. Remember he claimed to have Loved the old man? Do you buy his story? Why or why not?