Analyzing Criminal Discourse in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart through Fairclough’s 3D Model

Abstract

This study investigated the psychological aspect of fear in the lines of Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional work, the mystique of people, wrath, and restraint; for which, Fairclough’s 3D model has been applied to capture critical, criminal discourse analysis that pays attention to the lingual expressions for deciphering gothic aspects in the text. Crime fiction is the focal area of this research mainly because of the concepts of fear and mystery connected with psychological and lingual human features. The aim of this research is to reveal and analyze crime fiction aspects in the texts of a short story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. This research involves all the gothic features that are used by Edgar Allan Poe in order to unveil human mind and features that have to do with crime features such as suspense, curiosity, the environment, horrific context and those dimensions of grief that the protagonist is bound with die where language bears a tremendous role in designing features of crime.

Keywords: Mysterious, psychological, criminal discourse, Fairclough’s 3D Model