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    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by discussing its themes of murder, guilt, and insanity. It uses discourse analysis to examine the socio-psychological characteristics of the unnamed protagonist and his motives for committing the crime. The paper discusses various aspects of the story and its connection to the protagonist's psychological state. It ultimately concludes that the story provides a portrayal of paranoia and deteriorating mental health.

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    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by discussing its themes of murder, guilt, and insanity. It uses discourse analysis to examine the socio-psychological characteristics of the unnamed protagonist and his motives for committing the crime. The paper discusses various aspects of the story and its connection to the protagonist's psychological state. It ultimately concludes that the story provides a portrayal of paranoia and deteriorating mental health.

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    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by discussing its themes of murder, guilt, and insanity. It uses discourse analysis to examine the socio-psychological characteristics of the unnamed protagonist and his motives for committing the crime. The paper discusses various aspects of the story and its connection to the protagonist's psychological state. It ultimately concludes that the story provides a portrayal of paranoia and deteriorating mental health.

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    The TellTale Heart

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    Mark Anthony Legaspi
    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by discussing its themes of murder, guilt, and insanity. It uses discourse analysis to examine the socio-psychological characteristics of the unnamed protagonist and his motives for committing the crime. The paper discusses various aspects of the story and its connection to the protagonist's psychological state. It ultimately concludes that the story provides a portrayal of paranoia and deteriorating mental health.

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    The TellTale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story written in the genre of horror.

    It describes the
    committing of murder and then confessing it due to being tormented by guilty conscious. The paper
    aims to analyze the story thoroughly including its themes and literary and rhetorical devices. The
    methodology used for the paper is discourse analysis which essentially reveals socio-psychological
    characteristics of the protagonist who is an unnamed person, telling a tale about a crime he
    committed to prove that he is not insane. The paper discusses in detail various aspects of the story
    which are directly or indirectly connected to the motives and psychological impulsions behind
    committing the crime by the protagonist. The paper concludes that the story has been written to
    provide a study of paranoia 1 and mental deterioration. Introduction:

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