Edgar A. Poe incorporate the heart as a symbol in the story. He incorporates it because it represents life. After watching the old man sleep for seven nights in a row, he decides that the eighth night the old man will be killed because of the haunting eye. When the narrator puts his head in, he heard something very peculiar, ¨It was the beating of the old man´s heart. It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates a soldier into courage¨(3). Listening to the beating of the heart is controlling the narrator, like a clock, ticking down to the time of death, to the end life, for the old man. The heart is fuelling the evil, vulture eye with life, it is haunting him, and he envies the heart and all it has done to keep the eye alive. Thus,