An Analysis of the Storytelling Techniques in The Tell-Tale Heart

This report provides an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' examining the effectiveness of the story's setting, writing style, and character presentation. The report highlights how the use of horror fiction, character depiction, and visual elements, such as images and color themes, contribute to the overall impact of the story. It emphasizes the importance of a cohesive setting in enhancing a story's appeal and its ability to engage readers. The report also explores how the use of conversation form in the narrative helps readers to connect with the characters and understand the story. The conclusion reiterates the significance of a well-crafted setting in creating a successful and impactful story.

The Tell-Tale Heart

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Story writing is an art that was supported by many aspects in its effective presentation to a
reader. In this, huge role is played by the way of writing, presentation of characters, use of
images and overall content of a story. All these aspects integrated with each other and build a
perfect story book that can influence a reader to read whole and recommend the others too. This
clearly depicts that the presence of overall setting is much more important to provide innovative
view to story (Poe, 2019). This not only improves the effectiveness but also playing a supportive
role in disseminating the story to readers by itself. The main aim of this report is also to ascertain
the importance of overall setting in improvement of story effectiveness along with determination
of its power to disseminate story to a reader by itself.
MAIN BODY
Writing of any story is not an easy task. This requires lots of precision and good content. Content
is always the prime requirement upon which a whole story build. In a perfect story, there is a
requirement of everything that will able to justify the context. The writing is needed to be done
in such way that it will able to adjoin the aspects with each other and create the interest of
readers in book. The success of any story or book not only depends over their content. There are
many other aspects upon which needed to provide focus includes way of presenting characters,
images usage in accordance to the context of story and selection of writing style on the basis of
story’s nature. All these aspects work as common setting that helps a writer in effective writing
of story in the same way as perceived in the own mind. The role of such significant setting is
huge in the direction of improving effectiveness of story. It performs supportive role where it
automatically depicts the context and nature of story by itself. This will provide an opportunity to
a reader that effectively inherent the nature of story at understand the meaning in same way as
the writer had during the time of its writing. In overall manner, the use of similar approach will
help in improving reading experience along with ascertaining increment in the overall number of
readers (Amir, 2020).
The same is present in the case of The Tell-Tale Heart story. This is the Horror fiction and
written in the same way from it actually belongs. The use of character’s picture in depiction of
their wordings is over the top and simultaneously aid in creating the horror feel. The use of
colour theme is quite significant where the dark black and white images goes with actual context
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of story. The way of writing is also very impressive where it was presented in conversation form.
This is also quite significant and catchy that help the readers to recognize characters from their
face and understand the overall story in same way (Toikkanen, 2017).
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that there is huge consideration of overall
setting in writing up of effective and successful story. The same is visible in case of story named
The Tell-Tale Heart.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Poe, E.A., 2019. The Tell-Tale Heart. Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing.
Amir, S., 2020. Analysis of the Short Story'The Tell-Tale Heart'by Edgar Allan Poe. The
Creative Launcher. 2.
Toikkanen, J., 2017. Auditory Images in Edgar Allan Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The Edgar
Allan Poe Review. 18(1). pp.39-53.
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