The Tell-Tale Heart Rhetorical Analysis

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Have you ever thought about life in the perspective of someone who sees the world differently than you do? In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” an undeniable psycho is tortured by the mere sight of an old man’s eye, leading him to murder, lies, and confession. The only prominent solution to this problem is killing the old man, but things don’t turn out as planned when the police appear. Irony demonstrated in the short story gives a suspenseful, yet slightly humorous effect to the step-by-step explanation of the man’s morbid plan as he continues to contradict himself in the most ironic ways possible. Throughout the story, the speaker states that he is not, in fact, insane. While he believes that, the reader can easily identify that there