Irony In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

To begin with, Poe uses irony is a majority of his writing publications because to portray his dark humor, and entertain the audience in a somewhat sick and twisted manner. To demonstrate, the narrator kills another innocent man malevolently, and disposes the remains inhumanely, “If still, you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body” (“The Tell-Tale Heart”). The statement the narrator makes to name himself sane provides fright, for his declaration ironically further advances his insanity. This reassurance is lightly put in a sophisticated manner, and his recall on himself as another person consequently creates a dark atmosphere. Additionally, prior to assassinating

After murdering the old man, the narrator describes how he dispensing of the body in a very descriptive manner, “I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye—not even his—could have detected anything wrong” (“The Tell-Tale Heart”). The extensive descriptions Poe uses prove gruesome, astonishing and creeping the audience. By using such gruesome illustrations, a certain darkness is inflicted onto his style. Moreover, as the two characters in “The Cask of Amontillado” venture through the catacombs of an unnamed nation, Poe portrays the surrounding caves in depth, “Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size...two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite.” Extremely unperturbedly, Poe describes piles upon piles of bones, intensifying the infliction of horror upon the reader that he hopes for. By using sophisticated vernacular, his lengthy descriptions overwhelm the reader with haunted themes. Thus, Poe’s usage of