Reliable or Not? An Analysis of the Establishment of the Narrator's Unreliability in Edgar Allan Poe's &quote;The Tale-Tell Heart&quote;

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.7, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the establishment of the narrator's unreliability in Edgar Allan Poe's "e;The Tell-Tale Heart"e;. Therefore, the paper will first take a look on how the narrator presents his state of mind to the reader by pointing his arguments for his sanity out. Then, indications for the narrator's unreliability are worked out. Finally, the conflict between realities is briefly viewed and a conclusion made.