The Tell Tale Heart Insanity Analysis

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Ninety percent of people in mental institutions truly don’t know the potential of how insane they are. If you were a psychopath, would you be able to recognise your patterns? The narrator of “The Tell Tale Heart” is a huge example of this type of insanity. The narrator from this story is a lunatic because he stalked the old man during the middle of the night in his room for eight days, he murdered and dismembered the old man's body, and he developed extreme paranoia and growing anxiety of the fear that the officers would hear the beating of the deceased man's heart, though his heart was never beating in reality. The narrator of "The Tell Tale Heart" went into the old man's room for eight days at midnight and observed him while he slept. For the author sees this as a regular step to complete when planning to take the life from a person, but in realism no one would over-analyze the process of what he is performing. An ordinary assassin would have executed the elderly man on the first night, but the narrator chooses to stalk his prey before he kills. "And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it...I moved it slowly- very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep.(Poe, page 203)." The narrator is getting out of control from the very start of the situation. This states he is somewhat batty. …show more content…
However remarking the author's point of view, that's not the case. After the narrator takes the soul of the poor aged man, he dismembers his body. No sane human being would go through the trouble of slicing off all of the limbs of their victim. As soon as the narrator is finished, he places the parts of the carcass underneath the floor of the elderly man’s home. "I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three plates from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings.(Poe, Page 206)". The narrator is losing his