The Tell-Tale Heart (B1: A-K) by Janelle Schaeffer https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di What is the story demonstrating about the effects of fear? en-us 2021-02-08 15:01:25 UTC 2025-11-29 10:27:58 UTC hello@padlet.com The Effects of Fear in The Tell-Tale Heart https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182068276 The Tell-Tale Heart demonstrates the fact that fear has a way of consuming a person, making them do unspeakable things. It portrays feelings of anxiety that come about as a result of fear taking over. The narrator correlated a sense of dread with the old man's "Evil Eye." He compared it to a vulture and how it tears apart the carcasses of dead animals. The narrator was deeply afraid of the old man's eye, which drove him to kill the old man to shut his eye forever. After he killed the old man, the police were over at the house to conduct their investigation. The narrator was eager to gloat, as he just murdered the old man and he hid the body so well. When the police were in the house, the narrator started to feel flustered and nervous. His anxiety eventually caused him to confess his crime of killing the old man.]]> 2021-02-09 13:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182068276 The story "The Tell-Tale Heart" demonstrates the heightened emotions we may feel during stressful situations- which in turn may influence our perception of reality, or the decisions we make. I don't believe fear necessarily drove the narrator to kill the old man- however, I do believe fear (along with other dramatized emotions, like rage) made it POSSIBLE for the narrator to commit the act. The narrator had justification for killing once they "feared" the old man's vulture eye. Fear, however, DID cause the narrator to confess to the crime. https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182069467 2021-02-09 13:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182069467 In the Tell-Tale Heart, the effects of fear are displayed throughout the story in many ways. The effect of fear for the old man was extreme adrenaline and freezing up in fear. The narrator had no fear, other than going insane from the sounds of the heart beat.The narrator also had a great fae She responded to this by killing the old man. Her insanity drove her past reality to kill him. This was the effect of her fear https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182071082 2021-02-09 13:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182071082 The story "Tell Tale Heart" is demonstrating that fear can cause someone to make irrational decisions. It can lead someone to act on their defense mechanisms even if they are not rational. https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182072501 2021-02-09 13:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182072501 In the story "The Tell-Tale Heart", the impact of fear demonstrates how it can have a really big impact on the actions you make and the way you behave. https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182072700 2021-02-09 13:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182072700 The story "Tell-Tale Heart" demonstrates the effects of fear by showing how fear can take over someone's mind, as well as the way someone reacts to fear. https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182073776 An example in this story was the narrator, when he wanted to kill the old man because he was afraid of the "vulture eye" he had. Fear later on drove the narrator to react and kill the old man. ]]> 2021-02-09 13:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182073776 Tell-Tale Heart https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182074022 In the Tell-Tell Heart, the narrator continuously denies his insanity throughout the story. His fear and anxiety towards the old man and his eye are what lead him to insanity, and eventually he kills the old man. Through the telling of events, the story demonstrates how fear can lead you to do dangerous things that you wouldn't have done otherwise. ]]> 2021-02-09 13:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182074022 The story "Tell-Tale-Heart", https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182075170 demonstrates the way fear can cause someone to go to very reckless and irrational measures to deal with the feelings of fear and anxiety.]]> 2021-02-09 13:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jschaeffer/tosba68cjwlom0di/wish/1182075170