LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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The ticking of clocks
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The sounds of the neighbors
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A heart beating
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The old man’s increasingly loud groans
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Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator begins to feel uncomfortable and notices a ringing in their ears. As the ringing grows louder, the narrator concludes that it is the heartbeat of the old man coming from under the floorboards.
Detailed explanation-2: -The second major symbol in this short story is the beating heart, which represents the narrator’s conscience. After he kills the old man, the narrator starts to hear the loudly beating heart of the dead man.
Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” compares the beating of his neighbor’s heart to the sound of a watch more than once in the story.
Detailed explanation-4: -Soon, the narrator hears a dull pounding that he interprets as the old man’s terrified heartbeat. Worried that a neighbor might hear the loud thumping, he attacks and kills the old man. He then dismembers the body and hides the pieces below the floorboards in the bedroom.