Question#01. Would you consider this story to be "stream-of-consciousness"? Why or why not?

 Question#02. If this was a satire (a work critiquing certain aspects of society which the author thinks could use improvement), what might it be saying about American society in the 1840s?

Question#03. Discuss its title ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Relate this with theme of guilty and madness.

Question#01. Would you consider this story to be "stream-of-consciousness"? Why or why not?

I think, In "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Alan Poe makes use of the stream of consciousness technique to describe the feelings and thoughts of a mad person. Through this technique, we know all the contents of the narrator's mind and discover that he is a mad man. First, at the start of the story, the madness of the narrator is revealed to us through the idea of victim and victimizer. He shows himself as a victim and the old man as a victimizer. He refers to his fear of the old man whose eyes used to make his blood run cold. Yet, this makes it clear that he is a victim of himself, of his fears and his madness. However, the action changes and the old man becomes the victim when the mad narrator kills him, thus turning into a victimizer. He claims that the old man’s eyes will trouble him no more. The action witnesses another turn when the mad man once more becomes a victim to the loud beating of the dead old man’s heart. Yet, this sound is only there in his mind, reminding him of his shocking crime. He imagines that his visitors, the police officers, can hear the same sound; this drives him in the end to reveal everything about his crime because of this tell-tale heart. Thus, because the stream of consciousness technique reveals the contents of the narrator's mind, the mad man informs the police officers of the details of his crime. Second, the style of language that the narrator uses proves his madness because it is not the product of a normal person. His strange words confirm his madness: “I heard all things in the heavens and in earth.” He never completes his sentences and always interrupts his words and thoughts; this shows how mentally troubled he is. The illusion that controls the narrator’s mind is also a clear  evidence to his madness; he imagines that the old man looks at him in a strange manner, but this is not true. He even imagines the eyes of this old man to be like those of a vulture.   

Question#02. If this was a satire (a work critiquing certain aspects of society which the author thinks could use improvement), what might it be saying about American society in the 1840s?

1840s, at the time When America become a independent a independent state   and achieve independence as a country But still the fear of world war was dominant, it’s staire (one of the reflection of critisim on evil   ( One man looks for the other person who (blind man with one eye) 1^st man don’t like the 2^nd (old) man’s unique, mysterious  eye  and 1^st main in sore of old main’s mysterious (eye-phobia)anxiety, Some times the 1^st man try to kill him But the old man still in the situation of (unconscious), One day the old man alive in their room 1^st with     (angr-face) main enter in the room step-by-step then the old man’s heart-beat function-speedly  with fear and at the next-time (old man) dead. After the death of old main,1^st man seperate, Old man’s head and the other parts of the body   separate from the body through brutal way) it’s critiquing  aspect of the society don’t eithically and morally good defends  for the guilty, That is Guilty man is able to punishment/ sanction.  

Question#03. Discuss its title ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Relate this with theme of guilty and madness.

The title of the story is significant. It points to the hearts of both the old man and the narrator. The old man’s heart beats rapidly when he perceives someone in his room. His heart awakens him to the danger in the room. However, the narrator gets furious and murders the old man. The next time, the pounding of the heart comes from the underground. This assumption is false because underground lies the mutilated body of the old man. This actually is the pounding of the narrator’s own heart. The narrator is nervous and his pumping heart reminds him of his guilty act. The heart “tells tales”, one of fear and the other of guilt. (Guilty)Although the narrator does not feel guilty of his crime openly, however, it is his guilty conscience which leads him to confess his crime. At first, he murders the old man in his room and calmly hides his dead body underground. Then he calmly receives the policemen and leads them across the house. However, in the hearts of his heart, he feels nervous with the passage of time.  (Madness)Poe uses the character and theme to make “The Tell-Tale Heart” one of his near perfect tales. His works often explored the inner workings of the human mind; in particular its dark side.  

This story shows the terrible war of superego upon the id, the endless battle between conscience and impulse.  The Tell Tale Heart’is mad  because of the things he thinks and says. He repeatedly says that he is not insane nor is he mad. When someone says this a person would naturally assume the opposite about the person. A person could surmise that the person is actually insane. Another thing the narrator does is saying that his disease gave him exceptional abilities, such as hearing all things in heaven and in hell.

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