Madness In The Tell Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart puts forward an idea that ego can alter our perceptions resulting in madness because it will destroy accurate understanding. “The narrators insanity is figured forth in terms of the murder of reason and moral sense and an utter breakdown of the three aspects of the human identity…”(Edward.) The absurdity of this murderer being sane is clear to read.

To raise what may seem like an obvious question to some: why could only he hear the heartbeat? I like to look at what he was experiencing versus everyone else. What is relative is our awareness; it is what we sense and feel that matters. “The truth is, no color actually exists outside of our brain 's perception of it. Everything we call a color… only exists in our heads.” –Foresman. Once out perceptions have warped so far from what the rest of the world has agreed on is reality it can become overwhelmingly dangerous. The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story that explores this. What we all perceive isn’t something that everyday people, like the ones in Poe’s write, need to be pondered

The Tell-Tale Heart" as Evil Eye Event goes on to say, “Whether the sound is the noise of the death watch beetles in the wall, as John Reilly contends (1969:3-9), or the figment of the narrator 's deluded imagination or even the palpitations of his own heart, the effect is to accelerate the process of self-destruction begun much earlier in the tale. (Kirkland). In a final attempt from his other self the logically good in him reaches out by banging on the walls of his skull. He wanted the man dead-the eye gone, but he cannot let him get away with such a selfish act. The intrusions from the officers is a reminder that other people exist in the world he cannot act on his own narcissistic impulses. His conscious was reaching out and screams the man heart beat until he rips up the floor to show pieces of the