LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Question
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In Poe’s Tell Tale Heart, how do the police find out who killed the old man?
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A thorough police investigation
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Interrogating multiple suspects
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The narrator shrieks “I admit the deed!”
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The police find the body after searching the house
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” there are three police officers that come to investigate the shriek heard by the narrator’s neighbor during the night. The shriek was, of course, the old man’s as he was being killed, but the narrator tells the police that it was he who shrieked in a dream.
Detailed explanation-2: -For some inexplicable reason, the narrator becomes obsessed with the diseased eye of the old man. The narrator likens it to a vulture’s eye and is so haunted by the Evil Eye that he decides to murder the old man.
Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator felt guilt and he thought that he need to scream or die. He hear a heart beat and thought it was the dead person.
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