LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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With a pillow
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By smothering him with the heavy mattress
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By shooting him
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By strangling him with his hands
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Detailed explanation-1: -He is literally pulling the bed mattress over the man to suffocate him. In the process it muffles the sound of the beating heart that later symbolizes the narrator’s own guilt.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart, ” the bed symbolizes vulnerability. We typically think of a bed as a place of rest and repose, but it can also be thought of as a dangerous place: when we are asleep, we cannot be on guard against enemies or danger, and so we are vulnerable.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why does the narrator finally confess to the murder? He hears the heart pound and he thinks that the police can hear it but aren’t tell. What is the sound that drives the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” to confess? It was his own heart beat.