Annotated Bibliography on Secondary Source for The Guilt of the Narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart”

Wall, Brian. Narrative Purpose and Legal Logic in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 14(2), Autumn 2013, 129-143.

Brian Wall argues that existing studies of Poe’s short story viewed the possible insanity of the narrator and misinterpreted its significance  as the defense strategy that could be possible used by the narrator because traditionally, the insanity is viewed as an argument against a charge of insanity rather than an attempt to mitigate a charge of murder. To put it more precisely, traditionally, researchers just labeled the narrator of the story as mentally deranged that put under a question the entire narration and his confession in his crime. These arguments have their ground on the behavior and illusions the narrator had, for example, when he heard the heart beat of the murdered old man. However, such a view on the crime is one sided and refers the attention of the audience to the debate whether the narrator was insane or sane, as he estimated. However, Brian Wall goes further in his research and views the insanity of the main character not just in the context of the narrative and credibility of his narrative, but he rather views in insanity in the context of the criminal trial, the narrator is likely to undergo, when his crime is revealed. Unlike other researchers, who debate whether the narrator of the short story was insane or not, Brian Wall argues how the issue of his insanity may affect the legal trial. In such a way, the author expands the scope of the debate concerning the possible insanity of the narrator and opens the legal perspective on his case and his possible insanity.

Works Cited:

Wall, Brian. Narrative Purpose and Legal Logic in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 14(2), Autumn 2013, 129-143.

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