This story is basically a big exaggeration of madness, showing the actions and feelings of the narrator. “Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this,”.(Literature 37) “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed”. The purpose of the figurative language used in this story is to coincide with helping the 1st person point of view. All the while doing this, the narrator believes that he is normal and is not insane. He compares many things such as referring to the eye of the old man as the “evil eye”, and “eye of a vulture”. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly -very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep.” (Literature 37) He is insane and losing it every moment of the story, repeating words and using disturbing metaphors and similes. “And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. He uses it constantly, adding to the madness of this man. The repetition in this story is phenomenal. It helps us understand what is going on in his head because we are getting to know him throughout the story.
But you should have seen me.”Īs you can see the narrator is clearly mad, because this story is told in the first person it helps you understand the character even better, because we are seeing what exactly is happening to him moment by moment. How, then, am I mad?" (Literature 37) ".Now this is the point. I heard all things in the heavens and in the earth. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. "True! nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them. The point of view of the narrator helps communicate that the theme is madness to the audience because from the beginning the narrator uses repetition, metaphors and irony.
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