How Does the Tell Tale Heart Fulfil Your Expectations of...

How Does the Tell Tale Heart Fulfil Your Expectations of A Gothic Story? From a gothic story such as the tell tale heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, I expect numerous amounts of gory deaths, intense suspense, hideous horror, plently of fear and espically paranoia. They should also contain a variety of literacy techniques including imagery, sentence structure, punctation and repititation in my essay I will be focusing on the amounts of death, horror, fear, suspense and the amount of literacy techniques used throughout the story. Edgar Allan Poe uses a lot of suspense in the Tell Tale Heart. To increase the effect the suspense he incorprates it with literacy techniques. One example of mixing literacty techniques with suspense is†¦show more content†¦There is a lot of suspense right at the end of the story, the man has killed the old man and places chairs directly on top of where the old man was buried for the police officers to sit on. ‘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.’ At first it doesn’t seem to hold that much suspense but in fact with the mans cockiness comes suspense because he placed the chairs directly on top of the mans corpse. Throughout the story Edgar Alan Poe portrays the man as a madman. This is the first impression the Edgar Alan Poe tries to create. ‘I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’ Here he’s trying to state that he isn’t a madman when in fact it creates the impression that he is indeed a mad man. Later in the story he gives proof that he has indeed gone mad when he starts to hear the dead mans beating heart. ‘It grew louder --louder --louder! And †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ And now --again! --hark! Louder! Louder!Show MoreRelatedThe Genre of Stokers Dracula Essay6296 Words   |  26 Pagesconsistent in their effort to stamp out evil. In the end they triumph over evil even though the evil is very strong. This theme slowly and steadily gathers momentum until it becomes clearer in the end. In Dracula, Bram Stoker emphasizes how as the daylight ends, the horror begins, for from the depths of the swirling mist, he (Dracula) appears, his pointed teeth gleaming as he edges towards his victims. This is Count Dracula the King of the Un- dead - the dreaded vampire.