In this podcast episode, we dive into Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," providing a thorough reading and analysis of this classic tale. We break down the story's vocabulary to help listeners grasp its outdated language. The focus is on the unreliable narrator, whose unstable mental state reveals an obsessive fixation on an old man's eye, ultimately pushing him to commit murder. Throughout the discussion, we explore themes of madness, guilt, and the fragile boundary between sanity and insanity, leading to a chilling confession that marks the narrator's complete plunge into psychological horror.
