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Hello class.
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My name is Derek A Hell.
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And today I will be teaching you my presentation called
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The Tell Tale Heart, written by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Now one thing I want to say before I start
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um this presentation is that the reason why I chose
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to do my presentation on the Tell Tale Heart was
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because the title seem very catchy.
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Um I found that it was hard to interpret with
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the Tell Tale Heart meant rather than some of the
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other. Um the other things that he wrote such as
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The Black Cat, you know, like a simple title like
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that, I can probably assume what that what that would
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be about.
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But the Tell Tale Heart caught my teacher because I
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couldn't put the pieces together with what was going to
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be going on.
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So um yeah today I'll be teaching you about the
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Tell Tale Heart and I will be teaching you about
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the author which is Edgar Allan Poe.
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I'll be teaching you about his biography.
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I'll be teaching you about the plot summary within tell
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tale heart, the characterization, the narrator, the old man.
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I'll be teaching you about the graphical connection the setting
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which took place of course in the tell tale heart.
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I'll be teaching you about the symbolism, the irony, the
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tone that was used within the tell tale heart in
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the imagery most of all.
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Yeah, okay, so to begin with the author of the
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tell tale heart short story Edgar Allan Poe.
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He was a american poet and a writer.
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So the first echo to my mind is could I
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could I be an american poet and a writer?
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So to know that he was one of those off
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the back told me that he was a very, very
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talented author.
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But anyhow he was born in 18 on one in
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Boston massachusetts.
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Um Edgar Allan Poe was a distinguished poet and author,
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spending most of his time working as an editor.
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So I have to give Edgar Allan Poe his props
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because he spent most of his time working as an
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editor. So I'm not sure if you know what that
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means. But working as an editor means that he you
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know spend most of his time writing and editing stuff
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and and and as you know that or you might
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not know that this very time consuming, so to you
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know, invest your time in working to be an editor
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says a lot about a person, he has a whole
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lot of patients, but he had a challenging childhood since
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he was orphaned at an early age and he was
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bought by foster parents.
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So I can just imagine what he was going through
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at the same time um while being a hardworking editor.
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But Edgar Allan Poe had a severe gambling addiction and
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he was an alcoholic, resulting in his dismissal from organizations
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where he was employed.
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So while all of this going on he had gambling
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problems and he was addicted to alcohol.
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Plus he was um he was in he was brought
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to brought by his foster parents, however he became depressive
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and paranoid after the loss of his wife and he
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died& dad at earlier 40.
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So um I can just imagine, you know Edgar Allan
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Poe being a hard worker and an editor all while
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having gambling problems and being addicted to alcohol And at
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an early age being brought by foster parents.
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And overall, you know uh losing his wife and dying
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at an early age of 40.
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So he has a lot going on.
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But overall I still want to give him his credit
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for being a hardworking editor.
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Yeah. Um Okay we're gonna talk about, I'm sorry, but
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he was the presentation of um the author's biography.
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Um You know, as I mentioned, Edgar Allan Poe was
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born in 18 oh nine in massachusetts.
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He was a poet, writer and a career editor.
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He is organized for unique poet styles and short stories.
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Um Edgar Allan Poe had a troubled childhood since he,
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you know, like I said, he lost his parents in
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the early life where he was um well he was
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false head foster parents, but he had a gambling, the
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drinking problem.
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So the next thing I want to talk about in
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his presentation is the plot summary.
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Mhm. Right.
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Um um basically the dramatic dialogue in the short story
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tell tale heart explores a narrator's quist to explain his
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apparent sanity after having having murdered in an old man.
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So what Edgar Allan Poe attempts to follow his murder
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of an old man.
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Can you imagine that?
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Yes, the narrator alas that he adored the the old
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man for his Eva at which prompt him to murder
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his victim.
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Yeah, I find this i in the beginning I never
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knew that.
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Um like I said, reading the title Tell tale Heart
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will be so interesting, but now that I you know,
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dug deep into what tell tale Heart meant.
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It really brings a uh it really brings an interesting
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story behind tell tale heart.
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So, you know, reading later on um about to tell
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heart, it it really shocked me in certain situations.
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But after killing the old man, the narrator, he um
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he multi lated the body and hidden under the flash
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boards beyond reach.
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So can you imagine someone jess?
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It's crazy just doing that to you and then having
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your and can you imagine someone killing you and then
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hiding you up under flash boards where you cannot be
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reached? I can just imagine how he, what he was
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going through.
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But um the neighbor contacted the police about a scream
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that he had heard in the neighborhood and so the
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police arrived and when they arrived the narrator was was
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forced to admit his crime.
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So the old man, his heartbeat it from the floor.
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It was just, oh my God, I could just, you
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know, watching the news, we see stuff like this every
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day that happens um, on the news.
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But just to be able to read this and just
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it's like everything like in the plot store in the
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plot summary, you can be able to picture what's going
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on because when I read that part of the plaster
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the plot summary, I was able to picture, you know,
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the police arriving and then the narrator being forced to
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admit his crime, you know.
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But um we're gonna talk next about the character authorization.
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So basically within the characterization um Edgar Allan Poe uses
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diverse techniques to develop characterization in his work.
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He shares a significant similarity with other works such as
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the Black Cat.
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So basically the black cat is another work that he's
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written as well.
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And the similarity stem from overwhelming guilt and paranoia being
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paranoid by the main characters.
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Um Besides the use of the first person narrator is
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used to basically sort of feeling and emotions of character.
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So um their statements um that may be partial and
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readers need to you know, design more profile meaning the
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yeah um the characterization is basically um use for feeling
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any emotion.
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So this did take place you know, within the tell
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tale heart.
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Um so those are some, you know, techniques that the
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other head going on within the tell tale heart.
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Next, we're gonna talk about the narrator.
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The narrator is depicted as an unreliable individual, despite using
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the first person, they're at a point of view, he
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requires to emotional appeal to prove his unquestionable innocence pervasive
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as evidence that his remarks he had never given me
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insult and I had no desire for his gold yet
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he murdered the old man.
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Besides, he is ambitious, was because of his apparent empathy
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to an old man yet continues to murder him and
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seeks justification from the invisible audience.
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He is depicted as an obsessive due to his mental
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instability. So can you just imagine just someone killing someone
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and in excuse me?
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Can you just imagine someone killing someone and trying to
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seek justification within the invisible audience?
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Like how can you do that?
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How can you do that?
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So that lets you know then, that he had a
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mental instability for you?
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Yeah, next, we're going to talk about the old man,
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which was the one that was killed until their heart.
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Well, the narrator about the old man mitch is little,
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the narrator does not give a back story about him
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except for his ass.
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Additionally, the relationship between him and the narrator is only
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in plaid food, the narrator's opinion, he has pale clouded
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and blue ask, but go indicating he's wealthy.
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So back in the tell tale heart, we're gonna wind
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it back um you know that you know, I was
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told I was telling you all that.
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Um the dramatic dialogue and the story explores the narrator
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quest to explain his apparent sanity after having murdered, after
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having murdered an old man.
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So back then in the tattoo heart, basically the old
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man, he hasn't mentioned too much, but he he is
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just a person that we know that has pale clouded
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in blue eyes, blue bego indicating he is with.
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So as you can see right here on this slide,
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this is kind of like, you know, an image that
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you can get of him.
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You know, we don't want to just picture old man,
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we want to have some type of visual that we
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could, you know, remember of the old man when um
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subjecting ourselves to learning about the tell tale heart.
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Okay, next, we're going to get into the biographical connection
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of the tears head heart.
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Okay. Um yeah, basically the critical evolution of Edgar Allan
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Poe biographical background indicates that stuff substantial um similarities exist
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between the short and his life characterizations.
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Um Brandy argued that the narrator represents Pole and his
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repressed emotions.
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Um, Ma'am bow echo similarly cinemas by claiming that the
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old man, could you characterize his foster parents in their
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poor relationship?
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However, the short story represents a displacement of represent mint
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towards itself and here I have pictures, you know, showing
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like I said, so when you reflect back on with
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the tell tale heart and who are I want to
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see the pictures of the you know, characters that were
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that existed in within the uh within the tell tale
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heart. You know, here I have pictures so that you
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can see actually images of what the characters look like.
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Next we're gonna talk about the city, the setting that
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took place within the tell tale heart.
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Okay, um the tell tale heart is set in Gothic.
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Um Single argued that Edgar Allan Poe has an evident
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inclination of using a Gothic sitting in most of his
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work. Um several Gothic Jonah's elements are captured in the
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story. They even include the use of you know, dark
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atmosphere with no optimism or happiness.
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And I wish I could take you back to the
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first screen.
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But the tell tale heart basically is it gives you
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a scary feeling.
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So as you can see, nothing looks exciting.
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You know, everything is very scary looking and you know,
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has no optimism or happiness with any pictures.
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But um using an apartment used by a singular in
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a standalone environment affirms the use of Gothic setting in
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the play.
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However little is mentioned about the physical setting with the
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narrator used to convey um, the dreary feelings within the
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text. The fear of the evil eye compounds supernatural in
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for violent feelings.
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Right. Yeah.
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All right.
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Yeah, that's enough.
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We're gonna talk about the symbolism, the most sailors symbolism
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in the story is used of the evil eye.
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Um, Joan argued that, and I represent