He is Mad

"Villains!" I shrieked, "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! Here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!" (p.116). This is how Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" catastrophically ends. Here, the erratic Narrator Poe deforms the story in such a way that we, as the readers, are brought into an extreme reality of a mentally imbalance, paranoid assassin's imaginative world of delusion. As we read the …showed first 75 words of 1175 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1175 total…expressing his insanity. To my admiration, I would say that his techniques in producing a horror story are really effective. Personally, I was chilled as well as astounded when I read "The Tell-Tale Heart; I was somehow brought into the actual scene of the story because it was just so real. Finally, I have to say that Edgar Allen Poe had successfully done a great job in revealing his madness and communicating a dynamic story.