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 …

…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.