PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is the significance of the title of the story “The Tell-Tale Heart"? What does the title mean? The beating of a heart which causes the narrator to go insane that he confesses to his crimes. So the title means he’s telling (Tell) the story of the old mans beating heart (Tale Heart) that drove him insane.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a genuine mystery story, one that thus far has eluded satisfactory solution. The mystery surrounds the source of the sound that drove Poe’s deranged narrator to murder an old man and subsequently to reveal both the crime and his own guilt to the police.