Analysis Of Poe's "A Tell Tale Heart"

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sees the evil eye. The narrator's obsession is becoming
more furious. Then, already furious the protagonist hears a heartbeat. It
was a sound that, "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." This was the
old man's heartbeat and it increased the protagonist's fury. Now the
narrator is full of fury. He also had an uncontrollable feeling of triumph
and power. The narrator under all this confidence, triumph and fury, barged
in to the room. Scaring the old man, the protagonist put him to the floor
and pulled the bed over him. The protagonist could still hear the heartbeat
but only for a moment as it died down. The deed was done. The evil eye
would no longer trouble the narrator for it had been destroyed. All that
there was left to do was to hide the corpse.
After the murder the protagonist wisely disposed the corpse and
continued on with his sanity���or to say. The narrator had cut off the arms
and legs of the body and placed the pieces between the scantlings in the
chamber ...

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