Difference between revisions of "The Tell-Tale Heart"
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'''''The Tell-Tale Heart''''' is a short story written by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and published in 1943. The tale is told by a clearly disturbed narrator who murders an old man because of the way the old man's eye looks, and then hides the corpse, but begins having delusions related to his crime, but all the while insists that he's not crazy. | '''''The Tell-Tale Heart''''' is a short story written by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and published in 1943. The tale is told by a clearly disturbed narrator who murders an old man because of the way the old man's eye looks, and then hides the corpse, but begins having delusions related to his crime, but all the while insists that he's not crazy. | ||
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| + | ==Personal== | ||
| + | I had seen this story referenced and parodied many times in movies and TV shows, but it wasn't until around 2017 that I actually read it. It did not live up to the hype. | ||
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| + | ==Status== | ||
| + | This story is in the public domain. I don't own a physical copy of it, but I have listened to an audio book. | ||
==Review== | ==Review== | ||
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===Good=== | ===Good=== | ||
* Nothing. | * Nothing. | ||
===Bad=== | ===Bad=== | ||
| − | * No reason is given to why the narrator murders the old man, other than his eye, which the narrator doesn't like. I assume this was does purposely to make the narrator seem | + | * No reason is given to why the narrator murders the old man, other than his eye, which the narrator doesn't like. I assume this was does purposely to make the narrator seem completely crazy, but it just makes the violence entirely senseless, which I don't like in fiction. |
===Ugly=== | ===Ugly=== | ||
| − | * The story is just depressing and dark for no reason. At least with Poe's similar work, [[The Black Cat]], he tried to impart a moral, but here it's just a story about a crazy person murdering someone else. | + | * The story is just depressing and dark for no reason. At least with Poe's similar work, ''[[The Black Cat]]'', he tried to impart a moral, but here it's just a story about a crazy person murdering someone else. |
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
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Tell-Tale Heart, The - Murraycita.jpg|Illustration by Murraycita. | Tell-Tale Heart, The - Murraycita.jpg|Illustration by Murraycita. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| − | + | {{Link|Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart}} | |
| + | {{Link|GoodReads|https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391729.The_Tell_Tale_Heart_and_Other_Writings}} | ||
| + | {{Link|LibriVox|https://librivox.org/horror-story-collection-002}} | ||
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* [https://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart poestories.com/read/telltaleheart] - Complete text. | * [https://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart poestories.com/read/telltaleheart] - Complete text. | ||
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[[Category: Books|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | [[Category: Books|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | ||
[[Category: Fiction|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | [[Category: Fiction|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | ||
| − | [[Category: Horror|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | + | [[Category: Short Stories|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] |
| + | [[Category: Media Theme - Horror|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | ||
[[Category: Books I've Read|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | [[Category: Books I've Read|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Public Domain|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Books That Fail the Bechdel Test|Tell-Tale Heart, The]] | ||
Revision as of 09:54, 29 April 2020
The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1943. The tale is told by a clearly disturbed narrator who murders an old man because of the way the old man's eye looks, and then hides the corpse, but begins having delusions related to his crime, but all the while insists that he's not crazy.
Personal
I had seen this story referenced and parodied many times in movies and TV shows, but it wasn't until around 2017 that I actually read it. It did not live up to the hype.
Status
This story is in the public domain. I don't own a physical copy of it, but I have listened to an audio book.
Review
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- Nothing.
Bad
- No reason is given to why the narrator murders the old man, other than his eye, which the narrator doesn't like. I assume this was does purposely to make the narrator seem completely crazy, but it just makes the violence entirely senseless, which I don't like in fiction.
Ugly
- The story is just depressing and dark for no reason. At least with Poe's similar work, The Black Cat, he tried to impart a moral, but here it's just a story about a crazy person murdering someone else.
Gallery
Illustration by Murraycita.
Links
- poestories.com/read/telltaleheart - Complete text.
