The Gothic story that affected me the most would have to be Tell-Tale Heart. This goes beyond just reading it for ENG 241, I first read this story in the 8 th grade and can still remember the class room I was in and where I was sitting in the room. It was a story that for some reason stuck with me through the rest of my school days. I think the whole planning on killer’s part on how calm he was, how much thought was put in to it, and how he claimed not to be a “mad man” really drew me into the story. I wanted to read on to see what was going to happen, how it was going to unfold, and does he get away with it. What made this story a “memorable” one is how the mind can work against him by taking him from a calm man who is just trying to get rid of the “evil eye” to man who can’t get the beaten of a heart out of his head.
This is a twist of fate that makes him become the “mad man” he claimed he wasn’t. This story just gives the thrill of seeing how a crime is going to work out and does the criminal conscious play against him or does he actually have one. The only thing that made me wonder with this story is does the heart beat ever leave the man’s mind after he tells the cops what he has done?
