Tell Tale Heart Research Paper

An eye... Would a sane person ever kill someone over a peculiar looking eye? This is completely insane to suggest that a man would kill someone over an eagle eye. An eye that fills you with rage and pain. No mentally stable person would ever commit such an atrocity. However, a mentally unstable man is present that would do such things and this person is the narrator of the "Tell Tale Heart".

In the story a "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is talking about how he kills this old man he is taking care of, and he wants to kill him because of his eye. Even though he loves the old man, and he had no motive to kill him. For instance, he would never take anything from the old man, but because he hated that eye so much he killed him.The

He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! 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; 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 page #). This Quote explains how only the hatred for the eye drove the narrator mad. He had no desire for his gold or money he had no revenge to take he was just trying to rid himself of the eye. A man would not kill another man because of his eye this action would only be taken upon by an individual that is mentally unstable like the narrator in the "Tell Tale

I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings"(pg.). This quote is exemplifying that the narrator chopped up the old man's body in order to hide it in the floorboards on which he walked every day. There is little doubt that any normal person would commit such an atrocity without throwing up or becoming uneasy. In the article "Shocking! Man Discovers Dead Body Buried Under the Floor of His Room" Posted by Thandiani on The 05th May, 2016-tori.ng it states that: "A man has made a shocking discovery while inspecting his house. On Tuesday, the owner of the house while repairing the floor of a bedroom found a skull and a skeleton, as well as a bra and shoes! The stunned man had just found the remains of a decomposed body in the floor of his house." Based off this, clearly this man is surprised that he has found a dead body in his dwelling. He then goes on to state: “A tree root was growing from the floor in the bedroom and I decided to dig it out,” he said.“That’s when I made the terrifying discovery and called for help. It was too much for me to handle. I don’t know who did this. I had no idea I was living with a dead body.” This portrays the reaction of a normal person going about a normal life, when he suddenly found a whole skeleton of somebody underneath his house. He couldn't handle the situation,