Compose by Truong Thi Mong Thu - DH06QL2

In our life, there are always two sides existing. These are bright face and dark face and we ourselves wonder that how we can face to face them. Perhaps, bright face is easy for us to see, but dark face is opposite. We usually realize that dark face which existing inside our body was negative aspects. Sometimes, we misunderstand that we think ourselves as kind people, but the plain truth is on the contrary. Above details are proved in the story “The tell-tale heart” which reflects obviously two faces of our life. We can live in the torment and suffer misery when fighting against the court of justice presenting in our soul. To me in the story I never care for whether the man is mad or not, I just want to emphasize that the narrator confesses at the end of the story is meaningful because of people’s spoken words “cause lead to result” and I believe that it is the truth showing in this story and in our life. In fact, after reading this story, it is difficult for me to understand what you think about the man’s confession, but to me the man confesses at the end of the story because of three following reason.

Firstly, in my opinion, the narrator confesses at the end of the story because of his fear. He feels scared by his own serious offense. Maybe he imagines that the old man’s soul will finds out and punishes him. Therefore, he cannot keep calm and loose his mind. We can suppose that the old man’s heart is in the survival, so the man hears its beating. The sound seems to be louder and louder. To me, the man thinks that the old man is still living and the police will find out the trace of the old man. As a result, the man’s plan and prediction are broken up easily. Being a human being, we can also have mistakes and maybe we do not understand which motivation leads us to become a murderer. The man is to kill the old man because of his eye so that he can get rid of the old man’s eye immediately. The man feels afraid not only the old man’s shadow but also his eye. To me, the man thinks that he has robbed the old man’s eye, even fate. Naturally, the old man also comes back to retake everything which belongs to his possessive right, even the old man can haunt all of the man’s remaining life until he dies. In fact, “cause leads to consequence”, we are too. When we do wrong work, we are not uncourageous to acknowledge our mistakes. However, after rethinking we know what right and say “I am sorry about whatever happens”. Now and then we admit that it is difficult for us to say “sorry”, but it is better if we ask for forgiveness. For that reason the man confesses at the end of the story is like the consequence for bad action that he has caused for the old man.

In the world, nobody is perfect. Sometimes one of us also makes mistakes. Maybe the mistakes are serious or not. Perhaps, we feel scared, however, we can not hide our mistakes which we had done. Simply, we are human beings and we have certain thought and never act as a madman.

Secondly, being a human being, he cannot exist from the court of conscience inside his body. At the end of the story, obviously, the old man has died and we know a die person cannot say anything. On the contrary, the man hears the beating of the old man’s heart. The sound makes him uncomfortable. Sometimes, during the period of killing, the man is in confident temper and never fears. Maybe he is sure nobody has enough magical abilities to discover his safe plan of killing. When the cops are coming to check, he still sits on the desk put over the head of the old man. The man shouts loudly to show that nothing will ever frighten out of his wits. Nevertheless, it is usual that the dark face which existing inside his body is invading all of his temper. He feels suffocation and does not believe the soul of the old man is threatening him. In addition, the court of conscience in side his body or dark face is trampling upon his mind. He fears the punishing of conscience and is having qualms of conscience. Besides, he does not want to live in the guilty during his remaining life. In fact, we had read many newspaper articles which tell about killing person although the murderer kills him or her without trace, the cop still can search after truth. That is the reason why there are many people being ready to receive his or her guilty after killing others. Simply he or she scares when facing to the call of his conscience. Therefore, he or she thinks that confession is the liberation for people who always want to escape the obsession.

In fact, according to people’s common attitude when we loose one thing which has important meaning to our life, we will feel very regrettable.

At last, the confession at the end of the story is the repent about the man’s sin. Perhaps, the man feels regrettable about what he caused for the old man. Because of guiltless eye, the man has taken the old man’s fate furiously. To me, the man wishes he could not kill the old man. Maybe when killing the old man, the man never thinks about the consequence later. Until now, he wonders himself that why he can become the mad man at that time. Do you think that changing mind will change your soul? The old man is sinless; he deserves to live being murdered. At the beginning, the man desires to kill the old man with abject intention. In fact, I have beheld one situation which likes the man’s case. At the party, that person sees this person with provoking eyes, but he does not have any bad think. After the party ended, this person has used the knife to impale that person’s body because this person thinks that person does not respect him. As a result, this person feels guilty and confesses his fault with the police as the man in this story. In fact, when hating a person, we only want to do everything to make ourselves satisfied such as harming him or making him injured. However, after reaching our bad objective, we wish we never did it. For that reason, in the story “the tell-take heart” the man’s confession is considered the consequence of the regret about his guilt.

After all, in my point of view the fear, the court of conscience and the regret are the three main reasons leading to the man’s confession. As is natural, the regret will make his temper twinkled, and the court of conscience seems to be a person who reminds him of his serious offense or crime. Thereto, there is having qualms of conscience existing in the man’s soul. In addition, the fear creates motivation to force the man confess at the end of the story. Throughout this story, now and then, it is difficult for us to receive our guilt, but it will be a meaningful thing if we can confess our guilt loyally.

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