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Edgar Allan Poe Is Insane

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While many characters of Edgar Allan Poe are completely reliable, the main character from the first person narrative “The Tell-Tale Heart” is completely insane. He tells the readers that he is not mad because of all the careful planning he did in order to kill an old man with a vulture eye. Based on the evidence presented in the 8th Amendment of the Death Penalty the main character should be sentenced to psychiatric hospital because as stated by the evidence from the text the narrator killed the old man because of non existent “vulture eye”, heard loud heartbeats of the dead man, and he confessed to his crime. To begin, the main character is a delusional madman because he killed a man because of an eye. No sane person would kill anybody because
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