5 Gothic stories- The Tell Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, Frankenstein Chapter 3

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Rakeshdeep Korotana 10.01 Deadline 10/10/06

ENGLISH GCSE COURSEWORK

GOTHIC WRITING

The Tell Tale Heart

This is a story about a madman who lives with an old man and wants to murder him simply because of the fact that he doesn't like one of his eyes.

In the story it can be claimed that the narrator is obsessed with this old man's 'vulture eye' The reader believes that he is going over the top when he decides the only way to get rid of the old man's eye is to murder him. In the extract the narrator also clearly indicates what sort of effect the evil eye has on him, 'whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold: and so by degrees- very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man' Just by saying this phrase this gives the reader the impression that the narrator is mad, despite the fact that he even says that he is not mad.

Next when he creates his plan to kill the old man, he is so obsessed in making sure that no one ever discovers that it was him