ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

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But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of:
A
A letter
B
His clouded eye
C
His pact with the devil
D
His loud heart beat
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. But even yet I refrained and kept still.

Detailed explanation-2: -Guilt: “The Tell-Tale Heart” is conventionally read as a moralizing story about guilt and innocence. Critics have interpreted the sound of the beating heart as the narrator’s guilty conscious reminding him of his deed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” conveys a symbolic way of showing how one man drives himself farther into insanity through his own guilt. Furthermore, he uses dark diction to emphasize the self-destructiveness of guilt and how it can fluctuate the confidence of a man.

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