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Edgar Allen Poe’s Use of Varying Techniques To Terrify Readers
In Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat, a murderer tries to justify his actions in an outrageous and absurd way, and thus is hypocritical when he claims that he is completely sane. ... Montresor “vowed revenge,” saying that “at length [he] would be revenged (Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe,7). ...
One feature of The Tell-Tale Heart ¬that makes it similar to other works of Poe is the beginning of the story, containing the murderer’s insistence that they are not insane. ... and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story ( Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe (1). ... Yet, mad am I not --and very surely do I not dream ( Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, 26).” Again, the hypocrisy is horrifyingly evident when a short time later the author says, “…Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect… will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects (Great Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, 26).
Approximate Word count = 791
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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