Question

Select the correct text in the passage. Which quotation from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe brings out the theme of time?

Answer 1

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," what prevents the narrator from killing the old man during one of the first seven nights? The narrator says that his reason for killing the old man is that he does not like the old man's "pale blue eye, with a film over it" - he calls it a "vulture eye" and an "Evil Eye".

Answer 2

The quotation from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe that brings out the theme of time is: "And this I did for seven long nights - every night just at midnight".