Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

The mood of the Tell-Tale Heart is suspense and darkness. Made from the retelling of the speaker, who committed the a sin. The sin being murder.

The style of the Tell-Tale heart was Edgar Allen Poe's personal style "Arabesque". That was later developed into an actual style.

The "eye" symbolizes the part of the speaker that he/she refuses to show. This is because eyes represent inner knowledge. The "lantern" symbolizes light or truth. The "single thin ray" shows how open his perspective of the world is.

The Tell-Tale Heart has a speaker that has gone mad, who recounts his sin (murder). An old man with a physical illness.

Edgar Allen Poe wanted to tell a story and to demonstrate his theory of composition. This theory states that short stories should be relatable, controlled and compressed.

The narrator's tone is arrogant and excited. He is excitable because he is mentally unstable. Yet he is arrogant enough to believe he is right.

He was regarded as the writer responsible for creating detective fiction, the horror story, and a master of the short story.