When he later gazes at that “vulture eye” he becomes increasingly furious. Ostensibly, he kills the old man because of the strange fear of the “pale blue eye” that haunts him and that “resembled that of a vulture”. If Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness glimpses the “horror” as he experiences the intoxication of excess and descends into savagery, so too does Poe’s narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart become gripped by the fear and fascination of death as he suffocates the old man and then fails to still the beating of his heart. And then there is a frightening sense of urgency as the victims become ever more tightly controlled by, and at the mercy of, an “over-acuteness of the senses”. Many focus on the sheer terror evoked by death, but there is also a grotesque sense of curiosity and fascination that grips the narrator when confronting his own or another’s death. “The tell-tale heart and one man’s descent into horror” by Dr Jennifer Minter (English Works)Įdgar Allen Poe’s macabre stories revolve around life and death and evoke a range of raw and extreme emotions. Essays Made Easy for English Language (VCE Units 3-4).
“Contemporary” language examples and commentators.Argument Language Analysis Exams Yr 12 VCAA.Arguments and Persuasive Language (2023).
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