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Hok biết nữa nhưng mà mình thích cái analysis này mình viết quá đi :">
Well, first, analysis này thực chất chỉ là 3 cái paragraphs rời rạc done for assignment in class. Chủ đề mổ xẻ là truyện "The Tell-tale heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Nghe audiobook tại chỗ đây cho đỡ công ngồi đọc. Truyện cũng ngắn thôi :D
Và đây là assignment của mình. Mỗi lần viết essay là mình spend rất nhiều time nhào nắn ngôn ngữ (hết thesaurus rồi collocation rồi google):
Assignment: write 3 analytical paragraphs on “The Tell-tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
Thesis statement: No one can commit a perfect criminal act without bearing the overwhelming weight of guilt which eventually concludes that person to a sense of self-betrayal by his own concsience.
The narrator’s fixation on convincing his audience that he is sane only draws attention to the fact that he apparently suffers from paranoia and mental imbalance. He wants to convey his murder story to the readers in a sensible way: “Hearken! And observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story” by revealing layers of his criminal act. He aims to demonstrate a mental soundness that he believes to be existing within him but not yet conceived by the audience: “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded – with what caution –with what foresight –with what dissimulation I went to work!”. In some way, enjoying the process of his murder and narrating each step he took to end the old man’s life in cautious details already are exhibits of insanity. The narrator believed his plan to be methodical and calculative but, just as soon, that seemingly intellectuality is betrayed by his emotional and bewildered manner of speaking.
That the eye of the old man stirred up so much hatred within the narrator that he decided to kill the old man just to eliminate that eye reveals that there are inexplicable forces that drive people to commit ferocious acts. Apparently, the narrator has no rational reason to kill the old man, in effect he points out: “He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult”. The readers are not to fathom why he hates the old man’s “pale blue eye, with a film over it” but are hinted for the narrator, the eye represents something extremely dreadful that “whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever”. Here, the eye can be seen as a token of death itself – a hindrance to the man’s soul, a fortification between the man and the world he lived in. Or, rather than an organ of vision, the eye is the homonym of the “I”, the self the narrator sees in the old man. Thus, following this train of thought, it can be interpreted that what the narrator truly wants to eliminate in the end is that self which he cannot relate himself to. All in all, ultimately, there is still no traceable or concrete motive for the narrator to commit such a deed; in fact, it is perhaps merely the narrator’s mind that was playing a vicious trick on him.
The narrator’s way of releasing his overwhelming guilt by confessing to the police at the end of the story portrays a common picture of self-betrayal of criminals’ conscience. Though he deluded himself into the idea of being fine and all, he discovers: “But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone”. And as anxiety mounts up, he starts losing his self-proclaimed composed and cerebral surface in assuming the police to be “making a mockery of my horror”. That the narrator indeed suffers from uneasiness during conversation with the police suggests that though the mind can trick someone into believing committing an evil deed is not bad if it serves a good purpose for the self, the heart cannot be fooled easily and always leads that someone to be consumed by his or her own conscience. During this phase, it can be observed that there is a switch in the narrator’s psychological state of mind, going from calm, logical reasoning to random, unfounded emotional acts. His extreme anxiety can be seen through frequent use of short, irrational monologues that immediately shatter the sane image he has been trying to plant in the readers’ mind. As a consequence, he is driven to fully admit his deed by the righteous conscience inside of him for he can no longer contain the weight of his guilt.
Credited to Hailey Quach ~ Course 603-101-MA section 00026 ~ Teacher: Andrea Strudensky.
*bị ám ảnh với plagiarism*
haha tự kỉ là đây.
Well, first, analysis này thực chất chỉ là 3 cái paragraphs rời rạc done for assignment in class. Chủ đề mổ xẻ là truyện "The Tell-tale heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Nghe audiobook tại chỗ đây cho đỡ công ngồi đọc. Truyện cũng ngắn thôi :D
Và đây là assignment của mình. Mỗi lần viết essay là mình spend rất nhiều time nhào nắn ngôn ngữ (hết thesaurus rồi collocation rồi google):
Assignment: write 3 analytical paragraphs on “The Tell-tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
Thesis statement: No one can commit a perfect criminal act without bearing the overwhelming weight of guilt which eventually concludes that person to a sense of self-betrayal by his own concsience.
The narrator’s fixation on convincing his audience that he is sane only draws attention to the fact that he apparently suffers from paranoia and mental imbalance. He wants to convey his murder story to the readers in a sensible way: “Hearken! And observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story” by revealing layers of his criminal act. He aims to demonstrate a mental soundness that he believes to be existing within him but not yet conceived by the audience: “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded – with what caution –with what foresight –with what dissimulation I went to work!”. In some way, enjoying the process of his murder and narrating each step he took to end the old man’s life in cautious details already are exhibits of insanity. The narrator believed his plan to be methodical and calculative but, just as soon, that seemingly intellectuality is betrayed by his emotional and bewildered manner of speaking.
That the eye of the old man stirred up so much hatred within the narrator that he decided to kill the old man just to eliminate that eye reveals that there are inexplicable forces that drive people to commit ferocious acts. Apparently, the narrator has no rational reason to kill the old man, in effect he points out: “He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult”. The readers are not to fathom why he hates the old man’s “pale blue eye, with a film over it” but are hinted for the narrator, the eye represents something extremely dreadful that “whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever”. Here, the eye can be seen as a token of death itself – a hindrance to the man’s soul, a fortification between the man and the world he lived in. Or, rather than an organ of vision, the eye is the homonym of the “I”, the self the narrator sees in the old man. Thus, following this train of thought, it can be interpreted that what the narrator truly wants to eliminate in the end is that self which he cannot relate himself to. All in all, ultimately, there is still no traceable or concrete motive for the narrator to commit such a deed; in fact, it is perhaps merely the narrator’s mind that was playing a vicious trick on him.
The narrator’s way of releasing his overwhelming guilt by confessing to the police at the end of the story portrays a common picture of self-betrayal of criminals’ conscience. Though he deluded himself into the idea of being fine and all, he discovers: “But, ere long, I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone”. And as anxiety mounts up, he starts losing his self-proclaimed composed and cerebral surface in assuming the police to be “making a mockery of my horror”. That the narrator indeed suffers from uneasiness during conversation with the police suggests that though the mind can trick someone into believing committing an evil deed is not bad if it serves a good purpose for the self, the heart cannot be fooled easily and always leads that someone to be consumed by his or her own conscience. During this phase, it can be observed that there is a switch in the narrator’s psychological state of mind, going from calm, logical reasoning to random, unfounded emotional acts. His extreme anxiety can be seen through frequent use of short, irrational monologues that immediately shatter the sane image he has been trying to plant in the readers’ mind. As a consequence, he is driven to fully admit his deed by the righteous conscience inside of him for he can no longer contain the weight of his guilt.
Credited to Hailey Quach ~ Course 603-101-MA section 00026 ~ Teacher: Andrea Strudensky.
*bị ám ảnh với plagiarism*
haha tự kỉ là đây.
C thích cái này, chưa kịp đọc mí nghe, để tối nhé. Lên cơn thèm đi học qá :)
ReplyDeleteMà vừa mới nghĩ lâu lâu k thấy em đâu thì thấy ngay entry mới, thiêng qá :P
hihi chị ơi bài này em được 10/10 \:D/
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