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Mentally Insane In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

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Murder is a serious crime, but if you don’t have the best mental health, is it really fair to charge? The narrator of tell-tale heart had to be mentally insane. Anyone that has the audacity to watch someone sleep every night has to have a screw loose. Not only that but he could hear the old man’s heart beat “meanwhile the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker, and louder and louder every instant. “Poe, 92. There’s another thing…. Another thing that just proves this man is crazy or in his words “mad”, the reason he had of killing the old man. He murdered the old man because he didn’t like what he called “the vulture eye”. Ok, every reason someone is killed isn’t always the best but an eye! Murder is drastic, but if you can’t control the way you feel why be sentenced. The real question is jail or mental hospital. …show more content…

The old man’s evil eye drove the narrator absolutely crazy. Everyone has that one thing in the world that they just cannot tolerate, it bugs them so much that it causes them to do things that they normally wouldn’t do, especially if they are mentally unstable. Obviously by the way the narrator thought “And now my anxiety seized me…. With a loud yell I opened the lantern and leaped into the room.” He couldn’t control himself and let his emotions get the best of him. The loud beating of the heart and the evil eye both tempted the narrator to kill the old man, even though he had already planned to… he couldn’t do as he planned because the increasing sound of the heart was too much for him to handle. I don’t think anyone could hear the beating of the heart but him, “it grew louder-louder-louder! And still the man chatted pleasantly and smiled. Was it possible they heard not?-no, no! They heard!”-Poe,

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