Analysis Of "The Tell-Tale Heart": First Person Point Of View

Part I of Essay
Point of view is important to any story, because it can help create the mood, and setting of a piece. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a good example of this. In "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe uses first person point of view to create suspense and tension, while letting the reader tr ....

Part II of Essay
.... view, Poe was able to show how the narrator feels. An example of this is when the narrator uses the phrases at the beginning to question his existence. The narrator wanted to know if he was mad, or not. Phrases such as "I heard all things in the heaven and in earth" (62), tells the reader that the narrator indeed is mad, yet the narrator thinks himself not. In the following statement, "If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body" (64). This in turn hel ....