TELL TALE HEART - A LITERARY CRITICISM

Tell Tale Heart is about a man with a killer instinct. He is bothered and irked by a man with a weird eye. This story is a typical Poe story due to the darkness and moral interwoven into the story. Poe's lessons in his tales were not obvious. They were thought provoking and often left you thinking about the story well after you finished it. The fact that the killer was bothered by the eye and then killed the beholder represents to me that Poe wanted to make clear how we look upon each other for not what's on the inside, but mostly the outside. After the murderer kills the old man, he…