Is The Narrator Guilty Of First Degree Murder Or Insanity

There have always been those that people consider mad. Whether they act a certain way, or have mannerisms that are simply strange, people check them off as odd. The public never thinks to ask the big question. What made them this way? Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Susan Glaspell’s stories all include characters who, although a bit mad, have understandable reasons for being that way. In Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” our main character Mrs. Mallard is overjoyed at the death of her husband, an act that would be considered by many to be awful. In Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” we see the slow descent into madness of the wife of a man named John. In Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” we witness two characters sympathizing with Mrs.Wright who had recently killed her husband.. Ms. Mallard,John’s wife, and Mrs. Wright all have a distinct action that makes them appear mad, but they all

half week old baby and ate parts of him. Insanity is a very broad characterization and can be

Exist many crimes that had a high relevance because in that cases the accused is declared mentally insane. Many of these criminals try to get protected by the Mental health law. This one has one that clause that protects offenders from the lethal injection if the offender is declared mentally insane. For example, this infamous case of John Wayne Gacy. This individual that worked as a party clown, under the alias of Pogo the Clown. Wayne raped and killed 33 boys and men, and buried in a crawl most of the bodies. He and his defense team tried to get Wayne protected by this clause and avoid the lethal injection. Finally, Wayne was found guilty of each murder and sentenced to death penalty. This case was only an attempting to prevent the law, but exist many criminals that suffer from insanity, and they do not know what are they doing. In Tale Tell Heart, our narrator is apparently insane and doesn’t know what is he doing. Trough imagery, plot, and characters, Edgar Allan Poe, shows the insanity of this personage.

The theory of human insanity, for many is not a desire, but a result of. Society overlooks the term “Insanity”. Insanity is simply the state of being mentally ill, resulting in extreme foolishness. In “Lamb to the Slaughter” author Roald Dahl explored the theory of human insanity through the actions of main character, Mary Maloney. Mary Maloney was a devoted wife whose love for her husband was so strong she could barely deal with the fact he wanted a divorce. The thought of being a future divorcee startled Mary, leading to the homicidal death of Patrick Maloney. Critics may argue that Mary is guilty of murder, but Mary Maloney is evidently an innocent victim of insanity proving this through her oblivious states of mind caused by circumstance.

Second, there is the fact that he confessed his crime, so he knew it was an atrocious crime to commit. His guilty conscience told him to confess, and he did. "'Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed!"' (46). If you hadn't known it was wrong to kill the old man, you wouldn't tell the police. Or, if you did, you

psychological process which is making him now believe that he was once a victim to a survivor.

role confusion stage. (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2009) It is a coping mechanism that probably stems from his childhood in some way. This is just one example of how I am seeing the world from a more psychological perspective. I now try and form some theory about abnormal behavior rather that just shrugging it off. While I have not really had any experience with anyone with any very serious psychological conditions I see now that there is much more than meets the eye when it comes to their behavior. There is typically some sort of explanation that can be found in psychology and I think if everyone had a basic understanding of psychology they would understand the abnormal behavior a little better.

Madness (ˈmadnəs) - “The state of being mentally ill, especially severely” (Madness, Oxford). Without a doubt, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is filled with instances that often give the impression of madness. Incoherent speech, murder, and ghosts all contribute to this notion of insanity, but there may be more to Hamlet than meets the eye, as Hamlet’s underlying motives and actions indicate that he may have, in fact, been perfectly sane.

He has a strong inclination to get what he wants, even violates his conscience and refuses to assume the

He believes that his actions and words will mean less when he is

The man seems to have an extreme case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder some of the symptoms of this is to feel that you have a higher sense of authority, lacking care for other people, Arrogance or egotistical

He would become the victim of an “irresistible impulse”...” (Text 1). This corruption of the mind can drive people to commit crimes as morally corrupt as murder without understanding how terrible their actions are. To the narrator, to attack the blind eye that disturbs him so and murdering the old man are two separate events.

Not to mention he cannot trust himself or other people. At one point in his life he trusted his wife to no ends, and she took advantage of it and tried to help him to regain his memory. She put his memory to the test and It lead to her death. After her death he had no one to rely on other than what he wrote down.

The narrator is not sane therefore he is not guilty. The first reason why he is insane is because according to the narrator,- ‘I could see him as he lay upon his bed. I did for seven long nights --every night just at midnight. Changing in sleeping habits is a symptom of insanity

True! Nervous -- very, very nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? Insanity is not being able to distinguish fantasy from reality. The narrator does not know how to distinguish the two, so he is not guilty. If someone is unable to recognize the difference between fantasy and reality then whosoever suffers from this is mentally insane and deserves the rights of and deserves the rights of a mentally incapable person. The narrator is insane because he plotted a murder without malicious intent but and hears strange things after he killed the man due to the disease he references many times in the text.