Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.' In my opinion I think that this is a no good reason for killing a human being it's like me killing someone because they have ginger hair or freckles. The character in 'The Tell Tale Heart' had a lot of conversations throughout the story but all the conversations were to him. The disease he talked about could be split personality or even schizophrenia, which is when a person cannot relate their thoughts, or emotions to reality; this would explain why the madman talks to himself.
By the narrator already assuming psychological judgment from the reader, the reader can also feel to question and doubt his sanity through just the first-person perspective. His madness is challenged when he admits the old man has done nothing to him and that he “loves the old man”, but yet is still going to murder him because of his eye. The reader also learns of the narrator’s psychological mindset right before he murders the old man. “But the beating grew louder, louder! I
“Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe There are crazy people in this world and then there are outright lunatics, that's where Poe enters the scene. In Edgar Allan Poe's story, “Tell Tale Heart”, a man explains how he murders another man for no real reason, and still believes he is sane. To begin, this shady story is about a man describing of how he kills this old man. He explains of how he loves the old man, but the old man’s eye was similar to a "vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it." Throughout the story he explains how he isn't insane, and how his disease only "sharpened" his senses.
The narrator in ATTH, killed because he claimed the old man’s eyes resembled that of a vulture’s and that he felt uncomfortable because he also claimed that whenever they fell on him, his “blood ran cold”. Though the motive was not because of hatred or wealth; “I loved the old man…For his gold I had no desire”, it was more than just his eyes that the narrator despised. He could have used a quicker method of killing, instead of haunting the old man for eight days, and enlisting fear into him till his last breath. “I knew that that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise…His fears had been ever since growing upon him.” The protagonist in each literature share the same selfish and irrational characteristics; to take away a good leader from it’s people and replace it with a dictator is a selfish and irrational act. Taking away someone else’s life
Themes in “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the greatest gothic horror writers of all time, where his stories often “[blur the lines between sanity and insanity]” (Witherington 472). All of his stories are filled with tales of horror and suspense, usually containing murder and supernatural events. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” a man, who “insists that he is not mad,” murders the old man who lives in the house with the unnamed protagonist because the old man “ha[s] the eye of a vulture” (Masterplots 1; Poe 188). Though the old man is simply blind in one eye, this drives the protagonist to murder the old man. However, the murder of the old man is not the climax of “The Tell-Tale Heart;” it is when the police arrive at the scene of the murder (although they do not know it yet) that the unnamed protagonist reveals that he has murdered the old man and hidden his body beneath the floorboards (Poe 193).
Patch Adams is a movie about Hunter “Patch” Adams, a middle age man with contemplated thoughts of suicide. In the beginning of the movie, Patch admits himself into a mental hospital for his suicidal thoughts. He doesn’t feel helped by the doctors in the hospital, but rather the patients. And he also helps them. He makes things fun and they enjoy the life they have with humor and laughter.
“Mental Cases” is about the men who went crazy due to the events of World War I. it helps explain how these men looked with the use of half-rhymes, metaphors and similes “ drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring teeth that leer like skullls teeth wicked?” This talks about what the men looked like after going crazy. The poem explains that these men can only see and think blood and have become living resemblances of the dead from the war. “ Sunlight seems a blood-smear, night comes blood-black; dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh. Thus their heads wear this hilarious, hideous, awful falseness of set-smiling
Basil, a painter, paints a portrait of Dorian which changes for the worse every time Dorian does something selfish. The painting drives him mad because it is a daily reminder of the horrible things that he commits. Basil’s creation makes Dorian live a life of evil and despair, so he blames Basil for ruining his life and causing him mental pain. Eventually he tries to relieve himself of this curse and kills Basil instead of
When Hamlet explains,“ this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul…”, the “why” adds a tone of confusion, hinting that not even Hamlet can explain as to why he feels this way about the air. The sentences that follow continue the pattern of being an antithesis, with Hamlet describing man with great admiration, but then contradicts what he just said with, “Man delights not me”. Hamlet’s usage of antithesis reflects how he repeatedly contradicts his own thoughts throughout the play. Because of his father’s recent death, Hamlet’s mentality is confused, uncertain, and pessimistic. His disinterest in the world he knows is beautiful confirms the depressed state he is in.
Here, he mentions that he has had some kind of disease. It could be a mental disease. The fact that the narrator kills an old man, because he has an eye that (according to the narrator) looks like the eye of a vulture gives us an idea, that he is mad. The narrator keeps mentioning that he isn’t mad:” You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing.