The Transparent Accomplice In A Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

The Transparent accomplice in Edgar Allan Poe’s A Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer that was widely recognized for his evocative writings of mystery and disturbing events. Though most critics associate Poe with being an aesthetic writer, others would say he is not due to the dark stories he creates. In A Tell-Tale Heart, Poe tells a terrible, but simple story about murder, he adds specific aspects of the main character to cause discussion over a transparent accomplice. Some of his writings ended up becoming literary classics due to his own way of using insanity as a working accomplice in many of his stories. Though most people would have sympathy for the character due to his illness and excuse the act, the character’s illness only makes the readers merciless in A

The diagnosis of an illness has previously gotten people out of unspeakable crimes, because the perpetrator does not know what was going on mentally. In A Tell-Tale Heart, Poe begins the story by telling the readers of the character’s illness and sets the stage of a murder. Everything in this story is very vague, which gives the reader more of a chance to think of the events in their own way. The murder happened so easily and quick. The uncertainty of the murder might have given readers the impression that it happened due to the illness and felt bad because the character has gone mad and did not know what he was doing. Critics make the point that regardless of his illness he does know what is going on because of the detail he gives about his confrontation with the old man (Witherington 473). Using such details about peaking his head in the old man’s room, describing the look of the old man as “A Vulture’s Eye” determines that the character is aware of