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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'

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Have you ever considered a murderer actually sane? In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The
Tell-Tale Heart”, he writes in the narrator’s perspective showing us the sanity a killer has. The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is sane because he was capable of feeling regret as well as holding himself back from murder and being wary of his actions.

Poe’s narrator was able to refrain himself from killing the old man,therefore, he is sane. A mad man can’t hold himself from from murder. For example, Poe wrote, “Now you may think I drew back - but no (Poe 203).” A mad man cannot keep himself from murder because they will be too tempted to kill.

As well as containing himself from killing, the narrator is quite bright. In addition, a psychopath can’t
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