Btrr The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe

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Tell-Tale Heart 

Edgar Allan Poe

The Gothic Novel

In the 18th Century (griezel­roman) ‘the gothic novel’ was originated in England. On the one hand revers to the  Baroque Novel (roman), and on the other hand it refers to another subgenre: the  Historic Novel. The gothic novels, became very popular in other countries as well. The storeis narrate about mystery  and  the supernatural...

Highlights from the19th-century were Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Other literary wonders are 'Wuthering heights' (1847) van Emily Brontë and her sister Charlotte's 'Jane Eyre' (1847). A later, well-known (Victorian) novel in this genre is Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' from 1897.
Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu was inspired by the same themes with vampires (female), mystery and Romance.

Assignment

With the use of the next slides we will be analysing Tell-Tale Heart.

Have your short story, answers to the study questions and pen and paper ready. 

Ask questions whenever you feel like it.

Remember that you need to know this a year from now...

The story The tell-tale heart

https://youtu.be/Z_utA6j3Oc8

Another narrator

https://youtu.be/bansJgYiOXY

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

I'm drowning in a sea of grief.

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

My love for you is as deep as the ocean.

Which literary devices do you now know?

What are some of the themes in Tell-Tale Heart?

Alliteration

Hyperbole

onomatopoeia

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

pow-pow!

Kim's kid kept kicking like crazy!

What are some of the symbols in Tell-Tale Heart?

Evil Eye,

Death in the walls

Lantern, Crevice, as a spider's thread

What's the irony when it comes to the narrator?

ironic: his own speech betrays himself ( for policemen.

the policemen are villains in his view, but he is actually the villain!

He thinks the policemen make fun of him.

He thinks he is not mad, but the more he explains and to convinces the reader, the reader think he is mad.

Give some examples why he think he is so clever

Which elements of a gothic novel does Tell-Tale Heart have?

Mystery, horror, romance, symbolice supernatural

Do you have any questions left? What are they?