Edgar Allan Poe stories “One morning, in cold blood, I slipped a noose around its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree.” I am doing the story and poem: the tell tale-heart and the raven, and I am writing about plot, Figurative language and symbols, and conflict. In the stories the narrator usually gets revenge, but then gets caught and executed. I think that in the stories anger leads to or comes after, sadness. The topic is anger comes from or leads to sadness, the plot of the tell-tale heart is the narrator sees an eye called the vulture eye and it disturbs him, so he murdered the man who controlled it and hid the body, but then felt so guilty that he had confessed because he was scared. For instance, he says in the story: “ I dragged him to the floor and pulled the covers over him” ( pg. 82) at this time, he snuck into the old man’s room and murdered him, this proves the thesis, “anger will lead to or come from bad things.” Another quote is : “ Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here! Herre! At this time, he was questioned by the police and the guilt made him confess the murder. This proves the thesis because the anger got him, then the guilt, and the bad thing anger led him to was …show more content…
I will use figurative language, simile, etc. symbolism is linked to the theme because it is about anger because he gets angry : “quoth the raven, nevermore, the raven perched and sat and never stopped saying nevermore. His anger leads to his sadness in the story. Figurative language is linked to the theme: the raven getting him angry: “ Prophet!, said I, Thing of evil! Prophet if bird or devil!” (Pg 191). He was getting mad at the bird because it would not give him answers. It proves my thesis because he was angry after and before he was sad. Those are my quotes that prove how figurative language/ symbolism are related to the theme . On the other