Today in class we started off by discussing tone on a scale that looked a little like this

Negative---------------------------------------------Neutral-----------------------------------------------Positive

We came up with tones that we saw in A Tell Tale Heart. We came up with the following tones... shame, obsessive, panicked, unhinged, agitated, and shame. All of these were found within the last two paragraphs of the text. all these tones were on the negative to neutral and none in positive. Then we talked about all the dash mark and exclamation points in the last two paragraphs that added suspense.
The notes talked about dark romanticism. They use the original ideas of romanticism but with negative and dark tones and pessimistic themes. An example of this would be Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They used the idea of absolutes that are basically  no grey areas.