Throughout this short story, we learn more and more about how disturbed the narrator is. The narrator is a man who, right from the start, mentions that his illness has made is hearing acute which is important to know to understand his actions, his POINT OF VIEW, and the end of the story. It's written in a first point of view and we do not know the main character's name.
2. Imagery:
Darkness
Sounds - Heartbeat, Drums, Time (clock ticking)
Darkness
Sounds - Heartbeat, Drums, Time (clock ticking)
3. Metaphor :
The eye is compared to a vulture every single time the narrator talks about it.
Stone Dead (body)
The eye is compared to a vulture every single time the narrator talks about it.
Stone Dead (body)
4. Simile:
Black as Pitch
Heart beating like a drum.
" ... a single dim ray like the thread of a spider ..."
Black as Pitch
Heart beating like a drum.
" ... a single dim ray like the thread of a spider ..."
5. Personnification:
"Death in approching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. " This is like in movies where Death is a man dressed in a black robe with a big hood walking around, following those about to die...
6. Irony :
The narrator lets the reader know that he does not dislike the old man and he does find him kind, yet he kills him anyway because of his evil vulture-eye.
It is also ironic that the main character conceals the old man's body so perfectly that the police do not notice anything, yet he confesses his crime anyway.
Furthermore, he likes to mention time and time again that he's not mad, but he really is insane. How ironic is that?
7. Themes :
-A human being has a perverse, wicked side that can goad him or her into doing evil things with no apparent motive.
-Fear of discovery can bring about (out)...discovery.
-The evil within is worse than the evil or ugliness without.
Prefixes & examples :
Dis- Dissimulation
Im- Impossible
Fore- Foresight
De- Detect
Mid- Midnight
Un- Undid
Con- Conceal
Pre- Precautions
Intro- Introduced
Ex- Extent
Suffixes & examples :
-Less Motionless
-Able/ Ible Uncontrollable
The narrator lets the reader know that he does not dislike the old man and he does find him kind, yet he kills him anyway because of his evil vulture-eye.
It is also ironic that the main character conceals the old man's body so perfectly that the police do not notice anything, yet he confesses his crime anyway.
Furthermore, he likes to mention time and time again that he's not mad, but he really is insane. How ironic is that?
7. Themes :
-A human being has a perverse, wicked side that can goad him or her into doing evil things with no apparent motive.
-Fear of discovery can bring about (out)...discovery.
-The evil within is worse than the evil or ugliness without.
Prefixes & examples :
Dis- Dissimulation
Im- Impossible
Fore- Foresight
De- Detect
Mid- Midnight
Un- Undid
Con- Conceal
Pre- Precautions
Intro- Introduced
Ex- Extent
Suffixes & examples :
-Less Motionless
-Able/ Ible Uncontrollable
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