Etude sociologique

This text is an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's work entitled "The Tell tale hart" and which was published in 1843 at The United States The Pioneer. Indeed, Edgar Allan Poe was born jaguar 19, 1809 in Boston and died in Baltimore October 7, 1849. He is a poet, novelist, literary critic, Play Wright and American Publisher, as Wella as one of the hand figures of American Romanticism . This is how he wrote other famous works like "The Murders in the Morgue Street" which was named "The Raven" quickly became famous. In addition this is an important influence in the United States as well as in the rest of the world not only in literature, but also in other artistic fields such as cinema and music, or in scientific fields.

"The tell Tale Herat" is a short story that is part of the horror genre written in the first person. Indeed, the author puts on stage a narrator who speaks directly to the reader by admitting his crime as to relieve his conscience. So in this story we have at first the main character who is the narrator who commits the crime and therefore on which focuses all the plot. Then we have the old man and finally the police. The story begins with a questioning of the narrator who is questioning his state of mind. This is how he wonders if he is "mad". Then, he begins by telling his story by mentioning the reason why he wonders so much. Thus the eye of the old man with whom he lived who seemed to resemble that of a vulture tormented him. The narrator decides to kill him. Each night for seven days he will try to see the eye that tormented him but the old man was sleeping and the narrator could not see the eye that will prevent him from killing him. But on the eighth day the old man was waking up because of the narrator's entry into his room as for some time. Then, seeing the evil eye, he throws himself on the old man and kills him, dismembering him, and burying him under the floor. This is how neighbors who have heard screaming call the police. On their arrival he makes them believe that the cry came from himself and let them search the trusting house of his crime he described as perfect. However, he heard the beating of the old man's heart under the floor and thinking that the police had finally heard him confess his crime.

In addition, I personally think that the fact that the story is written in the first person gives the impression of being in the place of the narrator. Thus in the first line the fact that the narrator wonders about his mental state has challenged us that the problem to address by the story is precisely the mental state of the narrator. The narrator seems to suffer from loneliness. In fact, aside from the previous the old man with whom he lives, the narrator mentions nobody else. All he wants to do is put in place his Machiavellian plan which consists in killing the old man and nothing else that testifies to his loneliness and his confinement. Loneliness and madness let us think that the narrator seem schizophrenic . It can also be seen from the fact that the eye of the old man who, according to the narrator, was harmless, created a fear in him. It is from this perspective that we still have an element testifies to this schizophrenia , especially because we feel that the narrator feels guilty even if he remains proud of what he did. So we can think that the presence of police represents a return to reality for the narrator

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