爱伦坡《泄密的心》分析

The narrator in “The Tell

-T

ale Heart”

This short fiction uses the first- person narration to tell us a horrible murder story. The

narrator in the fiction is anunnamed killerwho murderedthe old reading

this fiction, I considered that this narrator is a good storyteller.

But in my opinion, he is an unreliable narrator and his not persuasive.

“Here, here!

--

It is the beating of his hideous heart! ()

dead person have such a loud sound of heart beat? Obviously he is totally mad and

only controlled by his fantasy. There are many descriptions out of reality except this

one, so I think he is not a reliable narrator and his language is attractive but not

persuasive.

I think the narrator has a neurotic personality, and he is a cruel psychopath. At the

very

beginning of the story, he said, “True! —

nervous

—

very, very dreadfully nervous

I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

(). This sentence makes me

uncomfortable, because such a weird atmosphere surrounds me and I don

’

t know

what the mad narrator is going to do. I judge him as a person who has the neurotic

personality, because he said he desired his eyes and

didn’t care about his

treasures ().

He killed an old man just because the old man’s

vulture eyes. T

he poor old man didn’t

have some annoying behavior or some words can make the narrator really mad. This

motive for murder is very ridiculous and seems unreasonable, and this

makescontribution to let me verify

that the narrator is a psychopath. It can’t be denied

that he is a very careful killer. W

hile walking into the old man’s room at the

eighth

night, he opened the lantern extremely careful and said

“

you cannot imagine how