“ It grew louder --louder --louder! And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not?”
Word Choice: "Mad" Instead Of "Crazy"
EX: Madman Mad
"How, then, am I mad?" (Par. 1)
"Madmen know nothing." (Par. 3)
Imagery: Irony
(1 minute before) “I took my visitors all over the house and bade them search – search well.” (pg. 6)
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
“Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” He hated the eye so he killed the guy.
Style/Structure: The Narrator was a Madman Although he Claims Otherwise
“True! -- nervous – dreadfully nervous, I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” He questions why people think he is mad
Theme: Trust No One
The old man trusted the narrator, but the narrator went and killed him.
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