Tell Tale Heart

The narrator dismembers the old man’s body after making sure he was completely dead. He then proceeds to conceal his body parts underneath the floor boards and makes sure he hides all evidence from the crime. The old man’s scream from earlier caused a neighbor to report to the cops and the narrator confidently invites him to look around. He states that the screams came from him after the nightmare he had and that the old man has left after the country. Being that he was so confident that they would not find out about the murder, he provided them chairs to sit in the old man’s room, right above where his body laid and engaged in conversation with them.

The narrator’s relationship with the elderly man is never disclosed in the story. What is known is that he feared the man’s “vulture eye”. It is describe as pale blue with a film over it. The narrator states that “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold…” Due to this discomfort, the narrator believes the only rational solution to this problem is by killing the old man. His actions demonstrate the possibility that the narrator suffered from some variation of mental illness. In addition, the narrator tends to repeatedly tell readers that he isn’t mad. He doesn’t believe that any of his actions in the story make him mad. The narrator acts in a wisely but, cautious manner as he carries out the stalking and eventual murder of this poor old man, something in which he

He liked the old man but didn't like his eye which was really bizarre. He’s really nice to the old man but his eye agitated him, so he always had mixed emotions towards the old man. He planned to kill the old man over his eye. He would go into the old mans room and watch him sleep every night at midnight, and just watch him sleep. He said he’d do it cautiously so that wouldn't make him crazy. But that just showed us that he really was insane,He repeated that for 7 nights straight, ands he never woke the old man up. So on the day he planned to kill the old man he was even more cautious than usual. He thinks he’s so slick that he chuckles, and wakes the old man up. The old man sits up in his bed and asks who is there?, and the narrator freezes on the spot. The old man was so scared that he made up excuses on how it was just the wind or something. It was a good thing that the room was dark enough the old man wouldn't see him. Or else it would have ended badly, but luckily for him it was too dark. So when he thought the old man went back to sleep. He shone his Lantern light right at the old man’s “Evil eye” which was wide open. He then couldn't hold back and jumped on him. The old man screamed but he silences it wit his bed. When he made sure the old man suffocated he cut him up and stuffed him under the tiles. He

The narrator liked the old man, and didn’t want to harm him at all, but he couldn’t stand his eye, and thought the only way to get rid of it would be to kill him. The narrator didn’t for a second think things through or consider the consequences of his actions, and killed the old man. Then the beating of the heart began and drove him to insanity.

To begin, the narrator talks about how he wants to kill the old man because of his vulture eye. “When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold. And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!” This quote explains

In the beginning of the story the character states, ¨ The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them”(Poe 1843). This means that the character is mentally retarded, or has mental issues. It states that the disease sharpened his senses, but he later states, “How then am I mad?”(Poe 1843) The narrator admits to being mad and starts rambling about the old man's evil eye and how he must kill him. The significance of this is that since he was mentally retarded, he probably did not know what he was doing when he killed the man.

He says in paragraph three “I did not hate the old man, i even loved him. He had never hurt me. I did not want his money. I think it was his eye.” The old man never hurt him, so there was no violence between them. His eye could have been dealt with differently. What happened next is creepy.

For example, the narrator admits, in the first sentence, to being dreadfully nervous, yet he is unable to comprehend why he should be thought mad. He articulates his resistance against madness in terms of heightened sensory capacity. Unlike the similarly nervous and hypersensitive Roderick Usher in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” who admits that he feels mentally unwell, the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” views his hypersensitivity as proof of his stability, not a symptom of insanity. This special knowledge enables the narrator to tell this tale in a precise and complete manner, and he uses the stylistic tools of narration for the purposes of his own sanity plea. However, what makes this narrator mad—and most unlike Poe—is that he fails to understand the coupling of narrative form and content.

The narrator clearly states that there is no logical reason fro him to kill the old man, but for some reason the narrator cannot think of anything but the man?s eye and says that it gave him the idea of murder. The chilling feeling that the eye gave him planted in him, the thought to kill the old man, and after thinking about it day and night, that is what brings the narrator to his mad state. He is so obsessed with it that he goes into

The narrator shares how it all started,to prove he is indeed not mad but confess to killing the old man.He stated "There was no reason for what I did. I did not hate the old man; I even loved him. He had never hurt me". For a week he would go at the old man's apartment at midnight and watch him sleep.He cover the light so just a little so he could look into the old man's eyes without him waking up.He took note of all his actions more like observing his daily routines.The old man had done the narrator no wrong . ''For it was not the old man I felt I had to kill; it was the eye, his Evil Eye"

This makes the reader wonder if he will fulfill the deed of killing the old man or if it is just banter. While the narrator loved the old man, he could not kill him while he was sleeping because he did not hate him without the horrid

Primarily, the accused murdered a man due to his “evil eye.” There are more logical methods of ridding oneself from an object/person that agitates them than resorting to murder. The fact that the narrator thought that the best way of freeing himself of the eye was to eliminate the man

In addition to the fact that the narrator understood that murdering someone is wrong, the narrator has a motive for killing the old man. Right off the bat, the narrator tells the reader why he wanted to kill the old man. He says, “I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that 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 for ever.” This indicates that he had a clear rationale for killing the old man and is guilty of first degree, or premeditated murder. Some may argue that the narrator is mentally insane and killed the man because over an irrational fear caused by his mental illness. However, an insane person would not wait to terminate a powerful feeling of paranoia and to assassinate the person causing such fear.

Moreover, he tries to defend his sanity by explaining how wise and cautious he was as he was preparing for the murder. Every night he checked on the old man to make sure he got everything right and get ready to execute his plan. The narration lacks of a concrete explanation of the person or place to which it is addressed, which leaves much room for interpretation for the readers. What we can infer from the story is it is not addressed to the police officers since the narrator says he was successful in making them satisfied. Finally, the climax of the story comes as the revelation of the dead body hidden under the planks. Because the story is told as a memento, our estimation might be that the narrator is addressing a court official or personage who may influence over the judgment of the narrator. Therefore, the story that the narrator is telling is most accurately realized as an appeal for mercy rather than just being an appeal to be thought sane.

The narrator is concerned that someone is going to find out that he killed the old man. He finds out that the old man vexes him but more his eye. The narrator acted innocently, so the officers wouldn’t know that he was guilty. The “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a narrator, that convinces readers of his sanity for the murder that he commits to an old man with a vulture