ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Edgar Allen Poe was and is a famous American writer who typically wrote short stories and poems; Poe’s works are usually gothic (a sub category of Romanticism, which focuses on uncertainty and dark elements) and are often told by a narrator.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is a chilling tale of guilt and murder, told from the perspective of a narrator who has lost his grip on reality. Because of his guilt, the narrator imagines things, yet he reports them as if they are happening. The reader must decide what is real and what is not.

Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator of Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” provides for an example of an unreliable narrator. The narrator’s unreliability relies on his attempts to confuse the reader, to digress and thus bury his omission of relevant information.

Detailed explanation-4: -Insanity, ulterior motives, and lack of knowledge all contribute to making a narrator unreliable. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue, ” “The Tell Tale Heart, ” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are all short stories in which Poe implemented a different unreliable narrator to show readers how to pay more attention to a story.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many of Poe’s narrators are so enveloped within false personas that they become unclear of their own realities and their own true identities, making them unreliable to the reader.