The Tell Tale Heart Mood

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The Tell-Tale Heart Essay

Edgar Allen Poe use the literary device of the setting to create a dark, threatening tone in his short story, by using 3 primary elements such as Time of day,population,and mood and atmosphere. Time of day were seven night at midnight (538:2). At the seven night the murder was trying to get inside but he enter loudly and the old man was a weak and the old man “who’s there” (539:1). The old thought that someone was watching him.The murder kept quite still and nothing for a whole hour and did not move a muscle, and in the meantime the murder did not hear him lie down(539:2).

The mood and atmosphere was lighting and the character were creepy and the night was intimidating and lightning