How Does The Narrator Plan To Kill The Old Man

The narrator’s relationship with the elderly man is never disclosed in the story. What is known is that he feared the man’s “vulture eye”. It is describe as pale blue with a film over it. The narrator states that “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold…” Due to this discomfort, the narrator believes the only rational solution to this problem is by killing the old man. His actions demonstrate the possibility that the narrator suffered from some variation of mental illness. In addition, the narrator tends to repeatedly tell readers that he isn’t mad. He doesn’t believe that any of his actions in the story make him mad. The narrator acts in a wisely but, cautious manner as he carries out the stalking and eventual murder of this poor old man, something in which he

He liked the old man but didn't like his eye which was really bizarre. He’s really nice to the old man but his eye agitated him, so he always had mixed emotions towards the old man. He planned to kill the old man over his eye. He would go into the old mans room and watch him sleep every night at midnight, and just watch him sleep. He said he’d do it cautiously so that wouldn't make him crazy. But that just showed us that he really was insane,He repeated that for 7 nights straight, ands he never woke the old man up. So on the day he planned to kill the old man he was even more cautious than usual. He thinks he’s so slick that he chuckles, and wakes the old man up. The old man sits up in his bed and asks who is there?, and the narrator freezes on the spot. The old man was so scared that he made up excuses on how it was just the wind or something. It was a good thing that the room was dark enough the old man wouldn't see him. Or else it would have ended badly, but luckily for him it was too dark. So when he thought the old man went back to sleep. He shone his Lantern light right at the old man’s “Evil eye” which was wide open. He then couldn't hold back and jumped on him. The old man screamed but he silences it wit his bed. When he made sure the old man suffocated he cut him up and stuffed him under the tiles. He

The short story, “A Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe, is told by an anonymous narrator and his strong dislike for an old man with a weird eye. The narrator has claimed to have killed the old man because he is convinced the old man’s eye is “evil”, and must be eradicated; despite the fact the old man has never did anything wrong to him. For eight nights, the narrator stalked the kind old man in preparation for his murder. After killing the old man, the narrator is so consumed with guilt that he gave away the location of the old man’s body and claimed the sound of the old man’s beating heart was haunting him. The narrator is not sane, he meticulously planned the murder of the old man because of his eye, and he tries to repeatedly convince himself and the reader that he isn’t a mad man while telling his side of the story. The narrator is not reliable.

The narrator liked the old man, and didn’t want to harm him at all, but he couldn’t stand his eye, and thought the only way to get rid of it would be to kill him. The narrator didn’t for a second think things through or consider the consequences of his actions, and killed the old man. Then the beating of the heart began and drove him to insanity.

As the narrator goes on secretly watching him night after night he sees less of the person that he has grown to care for and just the man’s evil eye. It is almost as if the narrator had to dehumanize the old man before he could kill him.

The narrator tries to kill the old man for “seven long nights- but I found the eye always closed and so it was impossible to do the work” (Poe 82). He tries for many nights, which the narrator proceeds with “caution” attempting to kill the old man (81). He says how he“wisely proceeded” while about to kill the old man. The old man says, “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening”, he is very determined to kill the old man (82). The narrator obviously took the time to carefully plan out the old man’s death.

The author purpose of telling this story is not about murder but more like convince about his sanity. The narrator start his story by saying he is super nervous but how do they know that he’s mad. Edgar Allan Poe is saying that how do we know he’s mad if we don’t know a person’s mind or feeling. So the purpose of the authors point is to convince us that the narrator has a disorder and act normal when he’s around the old man. Next, act in strange way when the old man is not looking. Like for example he examplains in the story “The tell-tale heart” “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually”. This quote not just explains his feeling about the old man eye but his anger and madness to kill him. According to Witherington Paul hi states in his source The Accomplice in The Tell-Tale Heart explains that” The verdict of madness, however come less from the story itself than from our commonly held assumptions that all obsessive murders are mad and that their madness is easily recognizable.” This quotes to me means that madness is easy to identify by observing a person behaver or his way of thinking. At last, I do think he may have had an illness that made him want to kill the old man.

This makes the narrator untrustworthy and unreliable. This also helps to illustrate Dark Romanticism’s questioning of mankind. Poe focuses on how unstable the narrator is and how the unconscious mind can destroy a man. The narrator drove himself absolutely crazy over the old man’s mysterious eyeball. He was obsessed with the eye and this caused the narrator to have extreme paranoia. The reader never finds out

The narrator clearly states that there is no logical reason fro him to kill the old man, but for some reason the narrator cannot think of anything but the man?s eye and says that it gave him the idea of murder. The chilling feeling that the eye gave him planted in him, the thought to kill the old man, and after thinking about it day and night, that is what brings the narrator to his mad state. He is so obsessed with it that he goes into

     In Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the storyteller tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. At the very beginning of the story, he asks, "...why will you say I am mad?" When the storyteller tells his story, it's obvious why. He attempts to tell his story in a calm manner, but occasionally jumps into a frenzied rant. Poe's story demonstrates an inner conflict; the state of madness and emotional break-down that the subconscious can inflict upon one's self.

The narrator 's desire for complete control, particularly of the old man and his evil eye which bothers him so much it leads him to commit his evil deed. He says that he did not have a motive for killing the old man other than his disgust at the man 's pale blue filmy eye. He describes the eye as "the eye of a vulture" and an "Evil Eye" and he confesses that it frightened him; once he got it into his head to kill the man, he could think of nothing else (Bouchard). “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe 1). He believes that the elimination of the old man, and the successful dismemberment and hiding of the corpse, will ease his extreme nervousness and his madness that will give him complete control over his life within the house. Poe’s interest is less in external forms of power than

With the story being so short, it is clear that there is thematic symbolism of the elderly man’s eye. The narrator first introduces the eye when discussing why he wanted to kill the old man. In admitting that the man never did him wrong and that he loved him but, he concludes that “it was his eye!” that haunted him. He goes on to describe that “He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold” (Poe 691). It is made clear very soon that the eye is not only of importance but also the cause of conflict. The narrator separates the eye, which he calls the “Evil Eye”, from the man. While it is not the old man that is the problem, it is the eye; he says “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe 691). The eye is what triggers his ultimate rampage of murder and dismembering. E. Arthur Robison from the University of California explains that “his [the narrator’s] sensitivity to sight is equally disturbing, for it is the old man’s eye which first vexed him and which he seeks to destroy.” There is importance in the idea of the eye triggering an immediate and quick action, the murder, while the rest of the story is prolonged. He

Within every paragraph one could see how nervous the narrator is while telling this story. He is very repetitive and is constantly reminding the audience that is not mad just because he wants to kill a man. He even says “I have told you that I am nervous: so I am.” (Poe ) The narrator admits he is nervous but then proceeds to ask how being nervous makes him a madman. Ultimately, what is author is saying through tone is that throughout the whole story the protagonist admits he is nervous and shows he is sad about his deed in the end when he admits to what he as done. This shows how the main character is not in the right mindsets and is indeed mad not just

Because the narrator had a clear motive, it is apparent he willfully murdered the old man. Throughout the story, the narrator carefully observes his motive for ceasing the old man’s life. “I think it was his eye! ... one of his eyes resembled that of a vulture … whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold … so … I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe). Since it is common to have a drive in order to pursue any task, it is not abnormal the narrator had a clear motive to rid himself of the eye. The narrator asserts in the text that the the peculiar physical appearance of the old man’s eye drove him to terminate the old man. Therefore, it it is evident that the narrator willfully killed the old man. Some may argue that taking a life merely due to physical appearance is exceedingly abnormal. However, the narrator’s extreme fear of death spurred him to rid himself of the old man’s eye and thus rid himself of

In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, is about a narrator, that kill and old man because of an idea that came to his brain for the old man’s eye. Once he determines to kill the old man, the narrator formulates a plan that fully acknowledges the effects of his actions. As he begins the explanation of his plan, he assures the readers with a sense of pride “how wisely[he proceeds] with what caution with what foresight with what dissimulation [he goes] to work”(1). The day he had killed him, he felt different. The narrator was just thinking about the man that he had killed. The narrator had killed a man which was an action that could leave to be important. He notices something about the man that is haunting him day and night. Trying to see whatś wrong with, the old man, he notices that “every night just at midnight [he finds] the eye always closed, but the old man who [vexes him, but his eye”(1). Every day it was hunting him down. He was just thinking about, the old man’s evil eye. He thought the old man had an evil eye, so he had a thought to kill the man. The officers came to his house because they suspected from him. Suspecting the narrator's guilty the