Tell Tale Heart Mood

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Analysis of Setting in Tell-Tale heart

EQ: How did Poe use the literary device of setting to create a dark tone affecting the mood of the reader?

Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to create an intense, and suspensive dark mood for the reader by using the following elements: locale, elapsed time, and man-made geography.

The most important element Poe used is Elapsed time when he described on (538:2) every night at midnight the way that he describes every hour,minute, second creates more tension and suspense which keeps the reader intrigued. Also (541:2) when the cops arrived at the door at “four o’clock” how that makes you wonder , even more how did they find out?will they now? and how from midnight he had spent 4 hours doing something so horrible; patiently, and calmly. On (541: 6) when the narrator tells second by second the sound of ringing increases more and more but the officers don’t seem to hear it until he
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Third element, locale(538:2) “open the latch of his door”, the safest place a person can think of or be in is he’s/her bedroom.(541:4)”i brought chairs into the room and placed my own in the very spot where my victim laid”, the way he can sit there without guilt but instead satisfied shows that the narrator is insane, and crazy.

Fourth and last element is Man-made geography(541:2)”I took up three planks from the flooring” the house and floor were made by man creating the physical part of setting.(538:5)When he is about to make a move “about to open the lantern” a lantern is man-made object which links to the mood and atmosphere because of the lighting coming from the