Jan Mason
Literature and Composition
Paper #1-The Tell-Tale Heart
SYMBOLISM IS KEY TO A undischarged STORY
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The-Tell Tale Heart” symbolism has neat power and drive within the story. As in both(prenominal)(prenominal) story symbolism is what helps the reader relate to the story in their own way. Symbolism also represents something’s other than what they instantaneously appear to be. Symbols help increase and express the true melodramatic meaning of a story or the main calculate within the story. In the “Tell-Tale Heart” symbolism is the most aright and present literary device used within the story.
In The story the nonagenarian world’s eye was describe as something that made the narrator very offensive. The narrator describes the old(a) guys his eye by saying “one of his eyes resembled that of a vulture- A crazy blue eye, with a film everyplace it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran ratty: and so by degrees” (p.413). For some reason the narrator felt it necessary to kill the old man he did not know why on the dot what it was about the old man that never did anything to him but he just felt he had to do it. The narrator states “ heading there was none…I loved the old man…He had never wronged me…I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!
”(413). So from the beginning of the story in your mind you have a visual of this old guy with a frightening pale eye with a nasty ugly film oer it..
This pale blue eye gives the narrator an instantaneous impression of shun toward the old guy. The expression that the narrator feels is one that sends sensations of chills passim his body. One can only imagine how certain things they despise can give just a cold uneasy feeling maybe not one of murder or death but definitely an uneasy uncomfortable feeling as he stated “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold”. To symbolize the eye as the match that set the unbend burning fire of the need to...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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