Vincent Price's Monologue Of The Tell-Tale Heart

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Vincent Price’s monologue of the Tell-tale Heart makes action scenes seem more suspenseful. In this scene the narrator is making a plan to kill the old man next door. The reason he wants to kill the old man is because of his eye. The way the narrator's actions and facial expressions allowed the viewer to grasps the situation and what made it so intense. Actions made this so intense when the narrator would rub his legs, taps his feet, scrunches up his shoulders.This showed us how anxious the narrator might be in this scene. The narrator's facial expressions also took part in showing us his insanity by squinting his eyes and widening them. After the narrator kills the old man. The police later arrives questioning the narrator. The narrator believes

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