Edgar Allen Poe's The-Tale Heart Insane

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Your Honor and ladies and Gentleman of the jury, the defendant in Edgar Allen Poe’s “the-Tale Heart” is guilty of first degree murder is when someone firstly thinks about killing someone, then they they plan an escape lastly they commit the murder. This shows that this person is sane. The caretaker should be considered sane because a person that is insane would never salk who they would kill in the “tell tale heart”(22) the caretaker says that every night around midnight he would turn the hatch to the door very slowly”.if the caretaker was insane they would not think about killing a man they would just kill a person. The defense says that “the old man was not what vexed me it was his eye his evil eye”. This is wrong because he also had some

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