Response to Literature Essay (by Zahra Ansari)

The old man’s grotesquely abnormal Eye, “pale blue with a film over it” evoked intense feelings of antipathy and hatred from the madman. These feeling became so extreme, that they drove him to the point of murder. “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 the eye for ever.” These were the thoughts running through the madman’s mind in Edgar Allen Poe’s dark, sinister story, Tell-tale Heart. Poe shows extremely descriptive imagery, an intense, suspenseful climax, and an extremely shocking resolution that will leave the reader on the edge of their seat!