Edgar Allen Poes The Tell-Tale Heart and the Symbolism of the Eye Essa

Edgar Allen Poe is the genius responsible for dark, twisting, and often uncomfortably grand gothic tales, and one of the best is The Tell-Tale Heart. This is a classic tale of a confused worldly concern who is so incredibly bothered by his housemates essence, that he (I am assuming this sexless character is male) thinks the only solution is to use to cold-blooded murder. Poe incorporates the symbol of the old mans nub in The Tell-Tale Heart, which has both natural and psychological meaning, it also helps to develop the plot and central conflicts in the score. The eye allows a better understanding of the bank clerks mental state, represents an omniscient/fatherly figure, and helps decorate the theme of right verses evil. The story?s conflict revolves around the narrator plotting, planning, and executing a man?s death, yet it is the eye that causes this man?s obsession with murder. Another important conflict in the story is that of the narrators struggle to prove he is sane , he does this by trying to pick out the eye externalizem evil, more evil than his own deeds. The only causal agent the narrator gives for his decision of murder is the man?s eye, and it is the eye the narrator must see before he can actually eliminateing the man. In the end of the story, the disposing of the eye actually leads to the narrator?s downfall. As you can see, the eye is the story?s main conflict, which helps to develop the plot, and real allows for a deeper understanding of the story. The author uses the eye to provide clues as to why the narrator is so unreliable. ?I think it was his eye Yes, it was this? (Poe 721), the narrator uses the line ?I think?, implying that he is obviously not very sure, and by all odds unstable, since something he ?thinks? is a problem... ..., which is one reason why he?s trying to prove himself as sane. This theme can be laced into the fatherly figure, by showing his struggle to stay ?good? in the eyes of his father, yet we have al ready established that he actually does understand that he is going insane, and since he comprehends this transition, he must kill the judging fatherly figure so he doesn?t see his turn to ?evil.? The eye helps to show the narrators spiral into insanity, the father/son birth occurring between the narrator and old man, and the ever transient theme of good verses evil. ?The Tale-Tell Heart? uses such blatant symbolism that it?s almost cushy to skip right over and not notice, but the understanding of the ?eye? is the key to this famous tale. Edgar Allan Poe is absolutely ingenious, and for obvious reasons his work will ever be considered as distinguished ?classics?.