Tell Tale Heart Research Paper

1 in 5 people are have mental illnesses nowadays. When you are insane, you see, hear and feel thing differently than others. The narrator of the “Tell Tale Heart” is insane because he actually killed the old man, heard the “old man’s heart” when it was actually his own, and cut the body into a bunch of different pieces. Normal people do not kill someone because that someone had a creepy eye. The narrator says that the old man’s eye was haunting and mocking him, he felt that way because he is insane. The book says the old man had a white film over his eye, so he could have been blind or had cataracts. The narrator could have just told the old man “Hey, your eye is creepy and if you don't cover it up I will take it out and kill you. Also he …show more content…
The old man was dead, so it couldn’t have been his heart. It was the narrator’s heart beat so fast that he could hear it. “It was a low, dull, quick sound- much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. (Poe 207.)” Paranoia was getting to him, and in the end resulted in him confessing to killing the old man. In my opinion, this is insane because he thought it was the old man’s heart, but it was actually his own. It couldn’t have been the old man’s heart because he was dead! The old man’s body was cut into a bunch of different pieces. To do that, you would have to love the sight of blood. Blood would be everywhere, in the bathtub of course. “First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs (Poe 206).” This action the narrator did is crazy because most people would throw up or even faint at the sight of all of that blood.
In my opinion, because he killed the old man, heard his heart beating, and dismembered the body, the narrator is insane. The “Tell-Tale Heart” narrator is believed to be insane and sane by many. Above all, the story is great and Edgar Allan Poe really knew how to hook his readers. I recommend this short story to many

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