Insanity In Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell Tale Heart

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Insanity is a rare disorder but is a disorder that makes normal people do “weird things”. Author Edgar Allen Poe writes about are narrator who is commits the perfect murder by staring at the victim every night, he then hides the body but guilt drives him crazy and he turns himself in. The narrator in the telltale heart is most definitely insane, because he is delusional, cocky and the actions that he does within the story prove that he is insane. The narrator in The Telltale Heart is delusional in the sense that in the being he beings the story with “ …very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” (Poe 303) The narrator here is trying to show how he is not crazy or mad and that just because he’s nervous does …show more content…

He then tells us that he made sure the blood drained into a pail as not to get it on the floor and that the floor boards where but exactly back in the same place as they had been taken out. The other reason the author appears delusional is he hearts the heartbeat of the dead man underneath the floorboards. During the ending of this story The Telltale Heart, our narrator is talking to the police about what had happened last night. He appears very calm and professional but eventually guilt gets the better of our dear …show more content…

The most prominent thing is he murders the man then cuts him up. No one in their right mind would murder someone nevertheless cut the person the murder into tiny pieces and hide them in the floorboards. Yes people murder people all the time but premeditated murder is very different then homicide. This also goes on with the second point that he waits for the man to fall asleep then watches him. Every night leading up the murder the narrator sneaks into the room and ever so slowly sneaks his head into the room and stares at the man for hours on end. This is very creepy and displays characteristics of a

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