The Tell-Tale Heart Quotes Flashcards
Peter 1 (Opening) ⭐️
“It’s true! Yes I have been ill, very ill. But why do you say I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad?” - (!) suggests he is shouting or exclaiming, why ill specifically? “lost control” - word choice, mental? unpredictable, unsafe.
Peter 2 (Enticing Incident) ⭐️
“His eye was like a vulture. The eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies” - “vulture” word choice, danger, dread, mysterious. “eye” is oddly specific, acknowledging his illness, obsession. “His eye was like a vulture” - simile.
Peter 3 (Rising Action)
“During all of that week I was as friendly to the old man as I could be, and warm and loving” - The narrator uses a list to describe the variety of actions he is doing towards the old man, planning, change in personality, untrustworthy, a mask?
Peter 4 (Climax) ⭐️
“The old man gave a loud cry of fear as I fell upon him and held the bedcovers tightly over his head” - “tightly” word choice, suggests the narrator was even scared, wants the old man gone, he holds the bedcovers over his head this therefore covers his head and eye which is obviously personal to the narrator, “fell” suggests it was possibly a deep urge from within.
Peter 5 (Falling)
“First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor” - through, bragging, the narrator uses a list to state the stages of his disposal of the old man, the narrator seems to be a lot more focused now that the eye is ultimately gone, arrogance, confidence, smarter.
Peter 6 (End) ⭐️
“I could not bear it no longer. I pointed to the floor boards and cried ‘Yes! Yes, I killed him’” - “I could not bear it no longer” - word choice, guilt finally took over? madness? “cried” suggests the narrators past, tired, confused, paranoia.
Conclusion ⭐️
TART + Evaluation.
Introduction ⭐️
T A R T + B . O
(Title, Author, Refer To Question, Techniques) (Brief . Outline)
What is the B.O of the story?
The story of a narrator who becomes obsessed with the eye of an old man in which he eventually kills all because of the fear the narrator has towards the old man’s eye, throughout the story the narrator seems even more mentally unstable from the start and the possibility that his insanity is slipping is evident as he finally confesses to the murder of the old man.
