The tell-tale heart

The tell tale heart is a psychological kind of story. It tells about an abnormal human behaviour. The murderer says that he committed the crime of killing the old man to get rid of his hateful vulture like eye that made him shudder. He committed the crime in a well planned and very cautious manner. He entered the bad room of the old man at the dead and threw a thin ray of light on the desired spot. 

He found him lying as sleep with his contemptible eye fully closed. He came back without talking the hideous step because it was not the old man who vexed him but his evil eye. For seven consecutive nights he went to kill the old man but came back unsuccessful because the eye was found closed on eight nights he found the eye opened. He pounced upon the old man dragged him to the floor and pulled the heavy bedding on him. The poor old man uttered a shriek and then died of suffocation. When the bloody act has been completed the door bell rang. 

A neighbour ______ happened to hear the shriek and had informed the police. Three police officers arrived to inquire into the matter. The murderer faced them confidently and satisfied them. Suddenly the murderer heard the beating of  the old man heart in his imagination. It grew louder and louder. He himself told the police man and confessed his crime.   

How does the writer create the atmosphere of horror?

          Edger Allan Poe is a famous name in the field of detective story and horrible scenes. He is really a master artist and he adopts a number of methods to create the frightening situation. In the present story there is murder there is death madness there is hallucination and there is a sharp shriek in the stilly night. The tall tale heart becomes a Pandora’s Box out of which terrors and horrors come out and the sky is over cost with them. In the beginning of the story a half mad and hallucinated person is determined to talk the life an old man who sincerely his and respects him. This whimsical strange fellow can not tolerate the sight of that abominable the eye of a vulture. For this reason he kills the old man. 

Through suffocation and dismembers his crops. This is also a horrible and beastly act and no sane person can imagine it. He deposits these pieces under the planks of he floor. When the three police comes these for the inquiry of the shriek he satisfies them. However the pricking of his conscience can not be stilled by any way and begins to talk loudly and cries oh God! What could I do? Suddenly he foams raves and swear. Screaming furiously he confesses his crime and asks the police men to near up plank and bring out the beating heart of the old man.

 Why did murder old man and why could he not kill old man for seven nights?

          The murder seems to be and abnormal person committing the most obnoxious crime of killing an innocent old man. The murder admits that the old man lived him and he never insulted him. There was only one cause of this decision to murder the old man. The poor fellow had a pale blue aye that resembled the eye of a vulture and it had a film upon it. The murderer could not bear the sight of that dirty eye. 

He abnormal it and decided to finish the old man so that he might not be tortured by the disgusting sight of the queer eye. The murderer went to the old man to kill him at midnight. He crept was closed. He went on doing it for seven nights but he always found the closed. It was impressible for him to do the work for it was not the old man who vexed him but it was his evil eye upon the eight days he found the eye. Opened and he stifled the old man.