The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room

Edgar Allen Poe uses setting, character and plot to develop the theme that sometimes a person's guilt takes control no matter how much he tries to surpress it in "The Tell-Tale Heart."

Tell-tale heart Escape room

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Introduction

Sometimes a person's guilt takes control no matter how much he tries to surpress it. "A beating heart is trapped and heard in this house, doomed to beat until it regains all its body parts that were dismembered by a homicidal maniac. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

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Character & Symbolism What symbolic object represents the narrator's skewed perception of reality or his own guilt?

The "Vulture Eye"

floorboard

lantern

02

Character The narrator's is... ?

Clever

Wise

Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous

sometime in the past

03

Setting The setting of the story is ...

the early morning

nightime, several references to "midnight"

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Setting The setting detail at the end in which the "evidence" of his guilt is right under the noses of the police indicates..

the narrator's madnees and guilt that also has been present all along.

the police in the story are unsuspecting.

his innocence.

This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

01

Setting What detail in the setting is similar to the heartbeat?

the tub

the deathwatches in the wall

the old man's treasure

coffee cup

02

Character How does the narrator's character treat the old man before he murders him?

mean

kind

sympathetically

viciously

03

Character & Plot What does this kind treatment before the murder suggest?

Murders aren't that bad.

Insanity causes kindness.

We might not know someone's true intentions.

The narrator was framed.

04

Setting & Plot The guilt of his crime is not really concealed just like the evidence is ...

never found

right beneather their feet

in the attic

removed from the premises

You found a secret message

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

01

02

...Keep playing

03

...One more

Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

224

Enter the secret code

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Plot In the end the narrator...

gets away with murder

cannot deny his deed or his insanity

still claim he is not insane

02

Character & Plot What drives the narrator to confess the murder?

the loud heartbeat he hears

The police force his confession

the old man's blood comes out of the floor board

03

Theme What could the setting, plot and characters mean in this story?

All guilt comes out in the end.

A person may try to hide his own guilt, even from himself.

Murder is wrong.

A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

Congratulations

You have recovered all the pieces of the old man! Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Are you sure you want to exit?

You will lose all progress made so far...

Exit

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