Moral of "Tell Tale Heart"
Morals:
- The truth always comes out
- Karma baby ;P
- Murder is wrong/Guilt
- "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! --here, here! --it is the beating of his hideous heart!"
Mood of "Tell Tale Heart"
Mood:
- Suspense (will he get arrested or wont he?)
- Horror ("He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold")
- When I read it I look back on when I felt guilty
POV "Tell tale heart"
- 1st person
- Story says I, we, us, me.
- Narrator is trying to prove is is in fact sane.
- Narrator flashes back to remember the night when he is telling the story.
- "My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears"
Characters in "The Angel of the Odd
Character List:
- Narrator- Dynamic, becomes drunk then sober. Round, Confident then nervous and suicidal.
- The AOTO- Static, stays the same trying to prove a point. Round, Shifts from angry at narrator to feeling sorry for him.
Tone In "The Angel of the Odd"
Words that describe the tone:
- Mollified
- Trepidation
- Propitious
What is the tone of the story?:
The tone is nervous and humors. Though the narrator slowly becomes nervous by the bad things happening to him, Poe makes it humorous by giving the narrator a "big head." "But to a reflecting intellect, like mine" the narrator stated.
Setting in the "Angel of the Odd"
Setting:
- Fall, November "It was a chilly November afternoon."
- Based around 1820-1844
- Mostly in his parlor (living room)
- Goes to a river "I now considered it high time to die, (since fortune had so determined to persecute me,) and accordingly made my way to the nearest river."
Characters of "Eleonora"
Characters:
- Narrator is unnamed- Dynamic (Loves Elonora then Ermengarde), Flat.
- Narrator compares the scene to Eleonora: "Here crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora" "And was smoother than all save the cheeks of Eleonora" "Melody more divine than that of the harp of Aeolus-sweeter than all save the voice of Eleonora" "And the lulling melody that had been softer than the wind-harp of Aeolus, and more divine than all save the voice of Eleonora"
- Eleonora- Static, Flat
- Ermengarde: "Maiden to whose beauty my whole recreant heart yielded at once"
Plot Elements in "Eleonora"
Setting in "Eleonora"
Plot elements:
Exposition: This sets out that they live in the valley and he lives with his cousin and his aunt. He states that he is mad.
Rising Action: He explains how Eleonora looks and how they came to love each other. Elonora grows sick.
Climax: Eleonora dies and he is left alone. But she promises to look over him.
Falling Action: He decides to move out into the city because the valley reminds him of Eleonora and the flowers are dying.
Resolution: He marries a girl, but an angel tells him: "Sleep in peace! -- for the Spirit of Love reigneth and ruleth, and, in taking to thy passionate heart her who is Ermengarde, thou art absolved, for reasons which shall be made known to thee in Heaven, of thy vows unto Eleonora."
- Live in a valley: "Beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass."
- Colorful woods: "The foliage of many thousands of forest trees"
- Around 1850
- Flowers: "Strange, brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burn out upon the trees where no flowers had been known before."
Edgar Allan Poe
By Peyton Gilbert