The Tell-Tale Heart 1

 Dictionnaire bilingue : wordreference (Linguee)

Dictionnaire unilingue : Merriem-Webster (US) / Oxford (GB)

Dictionnaire des synonymes : thesaurus.com


Comment commencer ?

- commencer avec une citation (de l’œuvre étudiée, ou de l'auteur, ou d'un autre ouvrage). "a perfect agony of horror and shame." 

- Poser votre question. 

- Présenter le contexte.

- Définir les termes du sujet.


Pour conclure ?

To conclude / To put it in a nutshell / To sum it all up /


Comment structurer ?

- si vous avez une problématique (question), et/ou des parties, dites-le ! 

- My outline will fall into x parts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tell-Tale Heart


After the quiz, here are a few elements we need to stress :

- the story starts with TRUE ! But can we trust the narrator ?

- There's no description whatsoever of either the narrator, or his victim. The narrator could be a man or a woman. We don't know much about his relation to the old man.

- The story focuses on the crime itself and its preparation. The narrator tells it, insisting that he's not mad.

- The action takes place in a room, much like in tFotHoU.

- The narrator says he has over acuteness of the senses, exactly like in
tFotHoU.

 

Court résumé :

le narrateur vit avec un vieil homme. Il a des sens aiguisés et les yeux du vieil homme le perturbent, le perturbent tant qu'il finit par décider de le tuer. 

Pendant une semaine, toutes les nuits, il s'entraîne à être de plus en plus discret. Il commence par ouvrir la porte puis finit par entrer à l'intérieur de la chambre du vieil homme. Il en profite pour signifier au lecteur que c'est sa méthode qui prouve qu'il n'est pas fou ; il est trop précautionneux pour être fou. A la fin de la semaine, il parvient à entrer entièrement dans la chambre de vieil homme, qui est intégralement plongée dans le noir.

 

 







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