Part 1 of Essay
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story authored by Edgar Allan Poe in which the underlining theme of evil becomes contradictory. Throughout Poe's passages are various instances of the illogical and unreasonable. In particular, the evil is pointed out by the narrator as being a physical evil. However, progression of the ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... to old man. The eye "haunted" the narrator "day and night" which ran his "blood cold" whenever it looked at him (Poe 3). "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye," (Poe 4). After the narrator's reinstatement of his aggravation, a new physical terror overcomes him. The beating of the old man's heart heightened the narrator's "fury" that excited him to "uncontrollable terror," (Poe 5). Not only does this old man have an evil eye, but an accursed heartbeat that "would be heard by the neighbor ....