Friday, December 9, 2011
The End to Poe.
Poe and had an complex way of writing stories that were dark and twisted. Two wrap things together his writing proved to be psychotic and to people probably insane. The way he wrote "Tell-Tale Heart" and how he tried to make the narrator not insane but in the end I believed that his purpose of writing the story was trying to show the concept of people that goes crazy and percieve things differently then how others do. His writing gives us other things to think about, like for example insanity, different personalities, psychotic influences by just an object. The way the narrator talks about how he hears things makes me think he should be locked up in a mental insitute and that should be the end of it. Edgar Allan Poe had others stories that I think others should read like "The Raven" a story about how a man weeps over the death of his wife by talking and hearing a raven say his wife name over and over again. Others may think of Poe as just a writer, I consider him an excellent writer, writing about things many other authors wouldn't write about.
Psychological Concept of Tell-Tale Heart
In the story, the narrator experience lots of psychological experience that we probably would probably believe that he was insane. The moment the narrator speaks he tells us he isn't crazy, as though he trying to make himself believe he isn't. He then goes onward and talks about the eye, contempating on how to kill the old man, by going in and out of the old man's bedroom for a couple of nights until he finally kills the old man. To me the narrator had different personalities; he was loving and caring towards the old man, but when it came to the old man's eye he was scared, nervous, and had hatred towards the eye. " He had never wrong me. He have never giving me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was the eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of this eye forever" (Poe 37). To me the eye was like him, calling the eye evil was like calling himself evil so to get rid of the eye was maybe him trying to change himself from being evil. In an article written by Wing-chi, he presents us with his explaination of how he interpret the story; "... the link between the "eye" and "I" in terms of projective envisionment: it is the narrator's "evil I" that makes him see the evil eye. In Robinson's words, "Vision becomes insight, the 'Evil Eye' an evil 'I' and the murdered man a victim sacrificed to a self-consitiuted deity" (Wing-chi). The narrator end up killing the old man at the end but the police arrivals puts him in a state of guilt, he starts hearing things and ends up cracking and tells the police that he killed the old man, which ends the story and the narrator insanity.
Cited Sources:
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing 6th Edition. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Pearson Longman, 2010. Print. 36-40.
Wing-chi Ki, Magdalen. "Ego-Evil And "The Tell-Tale Heart.." Renascence 61.1 (2008): 25-38. Academic Search Complete. Web. 9 Dec. 2011.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
About The Tell - Tale Heart
The story starts out by the narrator telling us that he’s not crazy just nervous. The narrator lives with and old man, probably a servant. The narrator is afraid of the old man’s eyes, to get rid of the eyes he had to kill the old man. For eight nights, the narrator comes in and out of the old man’s room contemplating on whether it’s the right time to kill the old man now or later. The old man wakes up on the last day, looks around afraid that someone was in his room but moments he goes back to sleep. The narrators see that the eye are open and go mad and finally goes in for the kill. The narrator begins to cut up the old man body and place the body part under the wooden floor boards. The neighbor calls the cops because they heard a shriek; the narrator welcomes the cops into the house. He tells the cop that the old man was out of town and that it was him who screamed. Finally it hits him and he confessed to the cops that he killed the old man, “Villains! I shrieked. Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –Tear up the planks! - Here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe). In his mind he begins hearing the old man heart beat growing louder and louder, making him insane. The short story is a great master mind of how a mad men plot to kill off the eye of an old man finally goes insane because he hears the heart beat of the old man in the end.
Work Cited
Poe, Edgar AllanGeary, Rick. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Read 54.10 (2005): 21. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Poe's Life
Who was Edgar Allan Poe? To start off this blog, the topic that must be informed would have to be Edgar Allan Poe's biography. In Boston, on January 1809, the second son of Eliza have and David Poe, who are both actors, was born. Edgar Allan Poe also has two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. When he was young, his father left him and his mother passed away from tuberculosis, so Poe and his sister were then taken in by different families. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, whom he took the name Allan from and added it to his. Poe excelled in all subjects at a first rate school and studied at the University of Virginia.He had problems with gambling and also alcoholic binging. At the age of eighteen, while he was serving in the army, Poe published his first poetry, "Tablerlane and Other Poems" (Poe 36). Due to some militia problems at West Point, Poe left the army and decided to write literature as a full-time career. Even with his famous works, ""The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven"" (Poe 36). Poe was poorly paid. Edgar Allan Poe's relationship with his foster father was not great when he remarried, so Poe left Richmond and soon found his biological family. He then lived with Maria Clemm, who was his father's sister; Clemm ahd a daughter named Virginia who in 1836 married Edgar Allan Poe. Poe traveled around giving out lectures and also wrote stories, which helped him with his income. In 1847, Poe's life began to deteriorate after his wife, Virginia, passed away, at the age of twenty-four, from tuberculosis. He drank more and had destructive tendencies. On October 7, 1849, at the age of forty, Edgar Allan Poe passed away from an unknown death. Even though it has been over a century since Edgar Allan Poe's death, his work of literature is significantly utilized in schools for education, recreated in theatre for plays, and also incorporated into television shows such at The Simpsons.
Works Cited
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing 6th Edition. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Pearson Longman, 2010. Print. 36-40.
"Poe's Life| Edgar Allan Poe Museum."Edgar Allan Poe Museum: Poe's Life, Legacy, and Works: Richmond, Virginia. Poe's Museum, 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. <http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php>.
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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/books/eapoe-SLIDE-SHOW-01-17-2009_index.html
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Anger, fear, and wanting to know more
Back when I was in eighth grade, I got to attend a series of plays which included works of poets and authors. To be completely honest, I was not interested in watching these plays. As each play went on one after another, they just looked and sounded so similar. Finally the last play started and I was excited; my boredom would soon be over but I was wrong the excitement soon turned into anger, fear, and wanting to know more. The play was about a short story, “The Tell – Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe. This play was a complete contrast with the plays before it. It wasn’t fun and cheery; it was dark, twisted, and intriguing. Watching the play I looked around to see the audience faces, some were interested and some feared on what would happen next, I was in that category. In the play, the speaker feels paranoid he goes through these psychological problems; telling us that he was nervous but not crazy, fearing things, and also hearing things. For one to write a story about murder, insanity, and guilt all in one story in my opinion is a lunatic. The play was over and I wanted to know more about Poe’s reason why he wrote with such insanity and ill plots. Was it because the causes of his past affected his life so much that he had to write a horrific story dealing with death, guilt, and paranoia? In this blog I will plan to write about Poe’s life and his writing involving paranoia, guilt, and death.
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