'The Tell Tale Heart' is a story about a man who killed an old man just because he didn't like the way his eyes looked like. The main character speaks about madness as being a gift and not a kid of disability for example in lines 2 - 4 he says: ' but why would you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them'. This person is trying to persuade us that the disease isn't bad. The mad man killed the old man and then cut him up and put him under the floorboards of the house.
Throughout the story he explains how he isn't insane, and how his disease only "sharpened" his senses. In the "Tell-Tale Heart", Edgar Allan Poe uses irony, imagery, and symbolism to show how sick the mind of the narrator truly is. Edgar Allan Poe uses irony throughout the story because he constantly confesses how sane he is. This is ironic because as he describes his actions and motives for the murder, he is only unveiling his insanity. The narrator attempts to reassure his audience he is of sound mind.
In addition to the tale's theme of sanity and insanity, Poe acquaints the readers with two others:Guilt and Innocence, and Time being the narrator's true foe, not Death. The Tell-Tale Heart details the story of a seemingly mad individual who kills his friend for no apparent reason other than the fact that he could not deal with the old man's silvery eye. After murdering the old man, the narrator still hears his beating heart from underneath the floor where he buried him. Overcome with guilt, he finally ends up confessing his heinous crime to the police. At first glance, a reader can assume that Poe meant this tale to be a straightforward parable about self-betrayal by one's conscience and guilt.
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The theme of insanity is easily recognizable and plays a large role in “The Tell-Tale Heart” to why the protagonist murders the old man; However, in “‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ [readers only see] the results of madness, not its origins” (Symons 241). The narrator begins the story by stating he is not insane but this “produces [the] opposite effect upon the reader” because of the lack of reliable motivation (Robinson 369). It is the psychological illness of the protagonist that urges him to “rid [himself] of the eye” (Poe 188). Here, readers are at a disadvantage as they can only view the eye through the biased,
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This main character is so confident about himself and his madness, moreover, he is completely sure that he has done the right thing by killing the strange eyed old man. He tries to explain that this murder wasn’t without reason, he says that the old man’s “one eye” was “evil” (lines 9-10-11) and this mainly caused him to plan the crime. The narrator explains in detail, how carefully he visits the old man every midnight and how mad he gets and reacts when he sees that vulture eye. The narrator has a quite strange relationship with the old man, since he visits him also every morning and asks how he passed the night. This shows the changeable psychology of the murderer, most probably because of the mental “disease” he mentioned in the beginning of the story (line 2).