![]() ![]() The heart in the story symbolizes the conscience of the main character, the quilt which the main character tried to hide. ![]() Human heart can love and hate.Įdgar Allan Poe decided to choose such a title for his story because he wanted to show that the heart can speak and can tell the truth. When we have negative emotions, our heart cries. When we are happy, our heart is happy too. Moreover, it is the major organ in the human body. The heart is a symbol of human emotional center. The Tell-Tale Heart – one of the Symbols in the Story It is not difficult to find symbolism in the title of the literary work. ![]() The story The Tell-Tale Heart is no exception. It is known that all the stories written by the famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe have a great deal of symbolic interpretations. ![]() (Britton) SYMBOLISM IN EDGAR ALLAN POE’S STORY THE TELL-TALE HEART In the second case the reader should ponder over the main ideas and themes of the literary work. Symbolism may be either obvious for understanding or hidden. Symbolism is represented by the use of some object in the literary work which stands for some meaning connected with the theme of the story. Symbolism is a special literary technique which is used by the authors to make the images in their literary works more colorful and deeper. ![]()
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