![]() ![]() You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart." But you should have seen me. relies on a reliable narrator to tell the tale. provides an upbeat moment and comic relief. reveals that these characters lack human emotion. By revealing the narrator's deepest thoughts, the author increases the element of horror in the narratives. ![]() The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of sufferers. Evil thoughts became my sole intimates-the darkest and most evil of thoughts. 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, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.Read the excerpt from "The Black Cat." Beneath the pressure of torments such as these, the feeble remnant of the good within me succumbed. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart." Object there was none. ![]()
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