The Tell-Tale Heart Insanity

The narrator of the text “The Tell-Tale Heart” is insane because he is unable to tell what is right and what is wrong. When he was discussing the way he covered up the murder, he described it as if it was a good thing. He made it clear that he was proud of himself and that he thought what he was doing was right. The narrator states “ I then replaced the boards so clever, so cunningly, yet no human eye - not even his - could have detected anything wrong. There was nothing to wash out- no stain of any kind- no blood- spot whatever. I had been too wary for that. A tub had caught all- ha! ha!” The fact that he considers what he did clever and cunning shows that he doesn't see any fault in what he did. Any sane person would see that covering up a murder is indeed wrong. Unlike the narrator who assumed covering up a murder is something to brag about.

“True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” (Poe). In “Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe illustrates that the narrator has an acute need of the old man’s vulture eye and eventually murders the man on the eighth night. The author highlights the events of the murder and soon, the narrator confesses to the police of his guilt. As Edgar Allan Poe fabricates this short story, he enthralls the readers by giving the events specific detail. If Edgar Allan Poe were to ever continue the story where the narrator would be put on trial, he would be guilty of premeditated murder. The reason for this is because the narrator cunningly planned the murder, had a motive of killing the old man, and

The major theme in “The Tell-Tale Heart” written by Edgar Allan Poe is guilt. By using dramatic irony, the narrator takes us day by day, explaining in great detail of his desire to be rid of the old man’s “vulture eye” Throughout the story the narrator tries to convince the readers of his sanity; that he is in fact not a mad man. He exclaims several times to the reader that he is not crazy in attempts to make us believe his plea. “How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.” (Poe, Cover Page). However, I think it is not the reader he is trying to convince of his sanity as much as he is trying to convince himself that he is sane. On multiple occasions, the narrator tries to justify his want and need to kill the old man in hopes that he will not feel guilt upon doing the deed which he has so calmly and cautiously contemplated over.

There's a border line protecting sanity from insanity, & a man has crossed to the other side.That man was the narrator from "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe; who murdered an old man for very emotional based reasons. Many people may believe that the narrator is sane & guilty, but I say otherwise. For one, he keeps stating that he is sane, he claims to hear things from places that are not proven to exist, & his explanations are unreasonable. He's insane & there's evidence how.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” tells of a murderer who kills a man because he is vexed by his eye. Throughout the story, the narrator continuously assures the listener of his sanity, while ironically indicating through an account of his actions that he is in fact not sane at all. The narrator’s state of mind is generally accepted as not a sound one. However, in looking more deeply into what the character says and who he may be saying it to, his true level of madness cannot necessarily be assumed. In fact, there is evidence that the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is not truly mad. Rather, the story he tells is an insanity plea carefully disguised as the testimony of a madman.

In the story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, a borderline insane narrator named Mr. Heart attempts to persuade the reader that he is sane by recalling events from his past. He talks of his experiences with Mr. Man, an old man with a pale, “evil” eye which he possesses an extreme disdain for. After thoroughly reviewing the case, all evidence points towards the verdict that Mr. Heart is guilty of first degree murder because the crime was premeditated, deliberate, and malicious.

On the 8th night in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, weird stuff happened on in the old man’s house. In the story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator is a criminal who people may wonder if he is sane or insane. The narrator is sane because he says he is not insane. the narrator says he done this he hid the body where no one could find it. How could a mad man do all this?is senses have not been destroyed or dulled, he was wise during the execution, and he hid the body so no one could find it.

The tale of “The Tell-Tale Heart” as penned by Edgar Allen Poe, presented in both video and story form, while experiencing some differences shows us how a man’s own guilt can drive him to insanity. Within the text we are presented a story about two men, one who is younger and one who is older. The younger man while showing no outward resentment for the old man is compelled to kill him. The driving force in this situation is the fact that the older man has a pale blue eye, an eye that the other man believes to be evil and thus must rid himself of it. The man then decides that it is his duty to rid the world of this evil pale blue eye.

Edgar Allan Poe was a horror writer in the early 1840’s. His works were described as macabre horror because of how disturbing and horrifying they were. Throughout "The Tell-Tale Heart" the anonymous narrator is trying to prove that he is not insane. I believe the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is insane because he shows the madman's traits of being delusional, and being quick-tempered.

Insanity can make a narrator completely unreliable, but out of three stories one stands out as the most unreliable. The first of the three stories that are in question is The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, which is about an insane person who kills an old man over what he perceives to be a vulture eye. Second is The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which is about a woman who is cooped up in a room by her husband and how the wallpaper of said room slowly drives her insane. Thirdly is Strawberry Spring by Stephen King which is about a killer that no one can catch that strikes during a weather phenomenon known as a strawberry spring. The most unreliable narrator out of the three is the Caretaker from The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe because he is devoid of morality and denies his own insanity.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” we are introduced to the narrator who is struggling with the possibility of being insane, and denies the possibility of insanity because of how well they think. Poe does not give the identity or gender of this narrator but he writes in a way so that we feel like the narrator is talking to us in person. The story continues with the narrator telling us about an old man who had one eye which resembled a vulture’s. The narrator states that he or she loved the old man but it was because of this one eye that the idea of murder entered the narrators mind. Again, the narrator denies the fact of madness because how well he calculated murder.

In the story, A Tell-Tale Heart, the author, Edgar Allen Poe, tells the story of a mad man who has killed an elder man in despise of his “Evil Eye.” Poe uses insanity to develop the main character revealing his madness throughout the story. The narrator’s madness is revealed first through his misunderstanding of people, the old man in particular. It is also revealed through the misunderstanding of himself and the guilt he faces after killing this old man he claims to have loved. And lastly, his madness is shown through denial of his insanity.

Would consider a guy with a mental disease mad or sane? Most people would consider that person mad? What if he kills a guy over an eyeball. What about then, is he mad? Well the narrator in the “Tell Tale Heart” has a mental disease and he does kill a guy over an eyeball. So, mad or sane?

Even during the time when the narrator was in the process of hiding the body, he does not find himself insane. The narrator speaks of how is was so cunning and intelligent enough to not get a spot of blood anywhere, of how he placed the boards of the floor precisely as they were before the murder.

“The Tell Tale Heart is a “detective story” with the mystery of a motivation. The mystery is solved for Poe because he knows the answer to the motive is the central core in the story (May). The Central core, focus, of the story is the obsession to continue to go to the door and watch the man sleep. The obsession was cause from the provocation of the eye. Just the presence of the eye caused madness. The young man’s actions can be related to loss of control due to provocation. This can happen when there is a state when temper is rising or if there is a state of fear or terror. The eye provides the young man with a sense of terror and fear. 32% of homicides in Victoria are based around frustration, and is commonly raised in the United States (Samuels, O’Driscoll, Allnut 477).