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Introduction: We get introduced to the character and his thoughts
Raising Acting: The madman says he loved the old man but it was his vulture eye that he hated. Every night for seven nights the madman would stalk the old man.
Climax: On the eight night instead of the madman stalking he was going to kill the old man. After he killed him he dismembered and hid the body.
Falling Action: After the madman was he heard a knock. It was three officers. Turns out a neighbor heard a sound coming from the old man's house and decided to call the officer.
Resolution: For the madman not to act suspicious he showed the officer around the house. After that, the madman kept hearing the beating heart of the dead old man in his head and that cause to confess to the three officers that he had killed the old man.

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The main conflict of this story is that the madman wants to rid of the old man. The thing that troubled the madman was the old man's eye. His only way of getting rid of the old man is by killing.

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The symbol of the story is the old man's beating heart because this is what causes the madman to confess. While the madman was with the officers he kept hearing his beating heart. It got really loud in his head so the guilt was building up. So the madman confessed and showed the dead body of the old man to the officers.

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"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it...I put in a dark lantern, so that no light shone out, and then thrust in my head...I undid the lantern cautiously so that a single thin ray fell upon the culture eye. This I did for seven long nights."
This quote shows that type of person the madman is. The madman has so much hatred towards the old man the for seven nights he stalk the old man. The reason for the madman to stalk the old man is look at his eye that the madman hates.

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"I loved the old man...I think it was his eye!...Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, thus rid myself of the eye forever."
This quote shows one of his many thoughts that the madman had. The madman is saying that he loved the old man. He had no problem with him with the exception of his eye. The madman hated the old man's eye. As he states his blood runs cold. The only way the madman could stop hating on the old man's eye is killing him.

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One effect is on the officers. The madman made sure to not act suspicious after he committed murder. He used his confidence to make the officer believe whatever he was saying.
"I took my visitors all over the house...I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room..."
Another effect was on the neighbor. The neighbor was getting suspicious of what was happening at the old man's house. The neighbor heard a noise and decide to call the officers.
"There entered three men, officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night, suspicious if foul play had been aroused, and the officers had been deputed to search the premises."

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An action that the madman did was to dismember the old man's body after he had killed him. The madman did this to make sure that he hid the body well.
"If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I described the wise precaution I took for the concealment of the body. First I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head, and the arms, and the legs."
Another action the madman did was to confess to the officers that he had killed the old man. This was because he kept hearing the beating heart of the dead old man.
"They heard! They suspected! They knew! They were making a mockery of my horror! I felt that I must scream or die! And now, again! Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! 'Villains' I shrieked, 'dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!'"

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The madman was a male and he worked for the old man.  He was his butler.
"You should have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
He even told the officers the whereabouts of the old man.
"I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country."