Apresentação feita para a disciplina de Inglês - IFB

1. RYAN, INGRIDY
CARLOS
THETELL
TALEHEART
A STORY BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS

2. BRIEFSUMMARY
Decision to kill the old man.
Every night in the room.
8th night.
Dismembering and hiding the body.
The murder
Neighbour’s complaint.
Checking the house.
Narrator’s thoughts.
Narrator’s end.
Police
The narrator feels anger and irritation towards the old man,
During day vs night.
Resonance in the narrator's ear.
Plot

3. “TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully
“TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully
“TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully
nervous I had been and am; but why will
nervous I had been and am; but why will
nervous I had been and am; but why will
you say that I am mad? The disease had
you say that I am mad? The disease had
you say that I am mad? The disease had
sharpened my senses — not destroyed —
sharpened my senses — not destroyed —
sharpened my senses — not destroyed —
not dulled them. Above all was the sense of
not dulled them. Above all was the sense of
not dulled them. Above all was the sense of
hearing acute. I heard all things in the
hearing acute. I heard all things in the
hearing acute. I heard all things in the
heaven and in the earth. I heard many
heaven and in the earth. I heard many
heaven and in the earth. I heard many
things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
Hearken! and observe how healthily — how
Hearken! and observe how healthily — how
Hearken! and observe how healthily — how
calmly I can tell you the whole story”
calmly I can tell you the whole story”
calmly I can tell you the whole story”

4. SETTING
In the house occupied by the
narrator and an old man. Between
the hours of midnight and 4 a.m.

5. THE
CHARACTERS
01
02
03
04
THENARRATOR
THEOLDMAN
THEVULTUREEYE
THEPOLICEOFFICERS

6. Physical Characteristics: Sick, paranoic
Psychological Characteristics: dreadfully nervous, mad,
arrogant.
Background: He used to be very sick and after recovering from
illness
he became agressive and obsessive what made him want to
kill the old man
THENARRATOR

7. THEOLDMAN
Physical Characteristics: old, man and blue eyes
Psychological Characteristics: Lovely, reserved and paranoic
Background: He is a old, single and reserved man whit a blue
and creepy eye.

8. THEVULTUREEYE
Physical Characteristics: Dull blue eyes resembling those of a vultur, Spine-chilling
Psychological Characteristics: Mysterious, paranoic, anxious
Background: It’s how the narrator sees the old man when looks to his eyes

9. THEPOLICEOFFICERS
Physical Characteristics: Just three regular police officers.
Psychological Characteristics: Animated and inattentives
Background: They came to investigate a report of a strange
scream in the old man’s house.

10. BLUE EYE:
True, inner identity that cannot be hiddern
LANTERN:
Tunnel vision and obsession
OLD MAN’S HEARTBEAR:
Narrator’s overwhelming guilt
SYMBOLS

11. UNDERLYINGTHEMES

12. “Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen
know nothing. But you should have seen me. You
should have seen how wisely I proceeded — with
what caution — with what foresight — with what
dissimulation I went to work!
MADNESSANDGUILT

13. The narrator questions sanity
Lucidity X Insanity
Guilt
He is not of sound mind
MADNESSANDGUILT

14. (...) Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran
cold; and so by degrees — very gradually — I
made up my mind to take the life of the old man,
and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
FEARANDOBSESSION
There is a clear moral degradation:
The old man was dead. I removed the bed and
examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone
dead.(...) He was stone dead. His eye would
trouble me no more.”

15. The nature of fear
Growing obsession
Decision to take his life
The old man's eye, reminiscent of a
vulture, represents a source of
terror for the narrator.
FEARANDOBSESSION

16. DEATHANDSHADOW
“All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with
his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it
was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that
caused him to feel — although he neither saw nor heard — to
feel the presence of my head within the room.”
He was still sitting up in the bed listening; — just as I have
done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in
the wall.
“ His room was as black as pitch with the
thick darkness, (for the shutters were close
fastened, through fear of robbers,) “

17. DEATHANDSHADOW
Gothic elements
House (old/black) and gloomy weather
State of loneliness
Death is a central theme
Shadow

18. Repeatition to reassuring himself:
I went down to open it with a light heart, — for what had I now to fear?
“
IRONYANDJUDGMENT
I smiled, — for what had I to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The
shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. (...) In the enthusiasm of my
confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest
from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect
triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed
the corpse of the victim.

19. “Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! — no, no! They heard!
— they suspected! — they knew! — they were making a mockery
of my horror! — this I thought, and this I think. But anything was
better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this
derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt
that I must scream or die! — and now— again! — hark! louder! louder!
louder! louder! “
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up
the planks! — here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!

20. He believed he was wise and deceived
the police.
The sound of the heartbeat gives
away the crime.
Anticipation of Judgement and
punishment
Paranoia and agony
IRONYANDJUDGMENT

21. PARANOIA
Single effect : PARANOIA.
He feels that he's constantly threatened e
He's constantly suspicious
He's paranoid.

22. WORDS

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