The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
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Poe erzählt beängstigend gut aus der Sicht eines hochintelligenten Psychopathen. Glücklicherweise hatte ich die Kurzgeschichte noch nicht gelesen als ich mit meinem hochintelligenten, psychopathischen Mitbewohner zusammen gewohnt habe. Der Ich-Erzähler erinnert mich erschreckend an diesen netten Wohnungsgenossen. Die Tatsache, dass der Erzähler felsenfest von seiner geistigen Gesundheit überzeugt ist, da er ja sehr intelligent ist und dass er keinerlei Reue zeigt, ist so gruselig realistisch.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is a classic among Gothic novels. The first person narrator describes in a meticulous way his motivation and implementation of a killing act. His victim is an old man, whose is pale on one eye. The first person narrator is extremely disturbed by the old man’s eye that he proclaims as the "Evil Eye". On one hand the narrator loves the old man dearly, on the other hand he despises him for his eye. This behavior is attributed to double-binding, where a schizophrenic person sends ambivalent signals to express his love/hate feelings towards someone. Poe does not mention in what relationship both of these characters are linked with each other, but it is said that the relationship resembles the one of father and son. It is even claimed that Poe processed his feelings towards his own father with this Gothic novel, which makes me shudder. The first person narrator points out multiple times to the reader that he may come across as a madman. Throughout the short story, however, he boasts of his sagacity as to how he terrorized the old man for a week before killing him. He finds pleasure in telling how he derides neighbors and policemen that nothing happened though everyone heard the shriek of the old man during the killing act. In the end, the "tell-tale heart" gives him away as the heart beat becomes louder and louder in his head. When he is no longer able to endure the noise in his head, he testifies to the police: "I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!”. Could it be that he was plagued by his own consciousness and, therefore, his own heart beat, which is attributed to a high adrenaline rush? Spine-Chilling!
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Poe erzählt beängstigend gut aus der Sicht eines hochintelligenten Psychopathen. Glücklicherweise hatte ich die Kurzgeschichte noch nicht gelesen als ich mit meinem hochintelligenten, psychopathischen Mitbewohner zusammen gewohnt habe. Der Ich-Erzähler erinnert mich erschreckend an diesen netten Wohnungsgenossen. Die Tatsache, dass der Erzähler felsenfest von seiner geistigen Gesundheit überzeugt ist, da er ja sehr intelligent ist und dass er keinerlei Reue zeigt, ist so gruselig realistisch.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is a classic among Gothic novels. The first person narrator describes in a meticulous way his motivation and implementation of a killing act. His victim is an old man, whose is pale on one eye. The first person narrator is extremely disturbed by the old man’s eye that he proclaims as the "Evil Eye". On one hand the narrator loves the old man dearly, on the other hand he despises him for his eye. This behavior is attributed to double-binding, where a schizophrenic person sends ambivalent signals to express his love/hate feelings towards someone. Poe does not mention in what relationship both of these characters are linked with each other, but it is said that the relationship resembles the one of father and son. It is even claimed that Poe processed his feelings towards his own father with this Gothic novel, which makes me shudder. The first person narrator points out multiple times to the reader that he may come across as a madman. Throughout the short story, however, he boasts of his sagacity as to how he terrorized the old man for a week before killing him. He finds pleasure in telling how he derides neighbors and policemen that nothing happened though everyone heard the shriek of the old man during the killing act. In the end, the "tell-tale heart" gives him away as the heart beat becomes louder and louder in his head. When he is no longer able to endure the noise in his head, he testifies to the police: "I admit the deed!—tear up the planks!—here, here!—it is the beating of his hideous heart!”. Could it be that he was plagued by his own consciousness and, therefore, his own heart beat, which is attributed to a high adrenaline rush? Spine-Chilling!