Rawr Tell-Tale Heart
By Sofía Mora Jara, Juliana Zamora Leandro, Matthew Beneditt Herrera
Index Author's Biographic........................................................................... 3 List of the most representative works ............................................................................ 4 Summary of the tell-tale heart............................................................................ 4
Economical and Psychological Context ............................................................................5 Entertainment............................................................................ 6
Interesting Facts............................................................................ 7
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Author's Biography
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, United States, on January 19th, 1809, and died on October 7th, 1849, in Baltimore, United States. He was an American writer, critic, journalist, and poet. He is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern tale, as well as the creator of the detective genre. Allan Poe became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in his own country.
For another of the great specialists of the genre, the Argentine Julio Cortázar, Allan Poe was the great master of the modern short story, or literary tale. Edgar's father died a year after he was born, and his mother, Elizabeth, would die a year later, in 1811, from tuberculosis. Since his older brother was already being cared for by his grandparents, Edgar and his sister Rosalie were adopted by two neighboring families in Richmond: one by the Allan and the other by the Mackencie. John Allan, Edgar's stepfather who would give him his surname, was a Scottish merchant. He was moody, and it is said that, in addition to not supporting Poe's literary destiny, he never legally adopted him. On the contrary, his wife, Frances, put all her faith in Edgar Allan Poe and always filled him with affection. After Edgar was baptized in 1812, the Allan family traveled to Scotland in 1815, where Poe studied at Irvine. Later, the Allans moved to London in 1816, where Poe studied at one of Chelsea's boarding schools, where he learned to write Latin and speak French. However, the family had traveled because John Allan had business on the old continent. As these were not successful, the Allan returned to Richmond in 1820.
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List of the most representative works The Black Cat The Gold Bug The Crimes of Morgue Street The Raven The Masque of the Red Death
Summary of the Tell-Tale Heart The story features an anonymous narrator obsessed with the diseased eye (which he calls "vulture eye") of an old man with whom he lives. Finally he will decide to kill him. The crime is carefully studied and, after being perpetrated, the body is torn to pieces and hidden under the floor of the house. The police go to it and the murderer ends up giving himself away, imagining hallucinatingly that the old man's heart has begun to beat under the wooden boards.
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Economical context: Upper middle class because in the story the narrator mentions the gold of the old man with whom he lives
Psychological context: The narrator: Mysterious, arrogant, a little paranoid, skillful and honestly it is not understood why he resented the old man's eye. He is a stealthy person and knows how to hide, intelligent, I forgive, he endures social and psychological pressure The old man: Carefree, a man with money, with a terrifying look and a mysterious eye, an older man, his heart sought revenge against the protagonist, beating and beating stronger and stronger in his conscience so that he would know who is boss. The officers: They are characters that only come out at the end, but they are confident but not carefree at all times they ask about the old man. 5
Entertainment
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Interesting Facts It was also made into a movie in 2009, in a production by brothers Tony and Ridley Scott. - There is a chapter of The Simpsons also dedicated to this particular heart. The author, Edgar Allan Poe, acknowledged his fear of the dark on many occasions. That's why she was so good at terrorizing us with her Every anniversary of his death, on January 19th, three red roses and a glass of brandy appear on his grave.
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Sofía Mora Jara, Juliana Zamora Leandro, Matthew Beneditt Herrera Editor: Juliana Zamora Leandro
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