About this video

• Video Title: Cuento de Edgar Allan Poe 🎧 | El corazón delator (narración con voz humana)
• Channel: Everardo Curiel
• Speakers: Not specified in transcript
• Duration: 00:19:36

Overview

This video features a human narration of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." The story is told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who insists on their sanity while describing a murder they committed, driven by an obsession with the victim's eye. The narration details the meticulous planning and execution of the crime, the subsequent concealment of the body, and the narrator's eventual confession, prompted by the imagined sound of the victim's beating heart.

Key takeaways

• The narrator claims to be nervous but not insane, attributing their heightened senses to illness.
• The motive for the murder is revealed to be an obsession with the old man's "vulture eye."
• The narrator meticulously describes the nightly ritual of entering the old man's room and observing him while he sleeps.
• On the eighth night, the narrator kills the old man after hearing his terrified groan and imagining the sound of his heart beating faster.
• The narrator skillfully dismembers the body and hides it beneath the floorboards, confident that no trace of the crime will be found.
• When police arrive to investigate a reported shriek, the narrator confidently invites them into the house, even leading them to the room where the body is hidden.
• The narrator's composure breaks as they begin to hear the imagined sound of the victim's heart, which grows louder and louder, leading to their confession.