Essays on The Tell Tale Heart

A Madman In this day and age we live in a world that is consumed and manipulated by images and the media. The printed word has become less valuable as we see many more cross-media adaptations. Novels are being transformed into movies and shows, comic…

Poe and Disintegrating Sanity in “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe is commonly regarded as a master of horror short stories, wherein many of his narrators experience signs of insanity. His story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” which conveys a man committing a foul murder, exemplifies Poe’s…

Although the movement of Romanticism, which followed on the heels of the Enlightenment has been characterised as nature-centred, God-affirming, idealist and patriotic, and generally associated with several positive values, a dark, subculture version of this school of thought also co-existed with the mainstream philosophy. Dark…