Commentary “The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe “

Commentary
“The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe “

Edgar Allan Poe born on January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland was an American short –writer, poet and editor he was famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre was considered part of the American Romantic movement. Poe was one of the earliest American Practitioners of theshort story and is considered the detective fiction genre. The tell- Tale heart is a short story first published in 1843.

This short Story is a case of domestic violence that occurs as the result of anirrational fear. This short story is about a man that lived with an old man that he admired, this old man had an eye like a vulture and the man was feeling really angry whenever the old man look him,this anger I lead the man to taking the decision to kill the old man and this way it would get be rid of that look forever. The man planned for a long time the way in which assassinate the old man,until one day entered to the room of the old man and raised the mattress of the bed together with the old man and threw it to the floor murdering this way the old man. After murdering the old man cutoff his head, hands, legs, and lifted some floorboards in the room and hid the dismembered body there. Minutes later, there touch the door three policemen who had been called by a neighbor who listenedfew noises. The man acted very normality, invited the policemen to go on to the room of the old man and said to them that this one was of trip, looked for four chairs, invited the police to take seat, and he put his chair on the tables they were concealing the body of the old man As it was advancing the conversation, the man started listening to weak sounds similar to the beating of a heart, theman began to feel nervous, because this sound every time was stronger and was thinking that the policemen also were listening to it, whereas the policemen only were conversing pleasantly. The...