The article also aims to demonstrate that Poe's story was very much in tune with the changing philosophical climate that within a few decades would bring forth the revolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. It will be argued that its Gothic grotesquery harbors much sense: the bizarre stunts perpetrated by its demented narrator offer insight into the modern frame of mind, and the mechanisms underlying the apparatus of a disciplinarian state, the latter analyzed here with a recourse to the ideas advanced by Michel Foucault. This article engages with the aspects "The Tell-Tale Heart" that account for its relevance for contemporary culture and society.
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