'Mentally Insane In The Tell-Tale Heart'

We hear fictional stories all the time that are created to frighten us, and because of what these eerie stories contain, we develop a fear that otherwise we would not have. When reading, “The Tell Tale Heart”, you are introduced to a whole new level of creepy. It forces you to wonder and contemplate things that you would have never thought twice about. The “Tell Tale Heart” is a story about a man who commits an unthinkable crime, and leaves us all astonished at the thoughts and actions that went into doing executing it. While we know that he was more than guilty of committing this horrible crime, his motive is hard to define, and his true character is debated. Rather he is mentally insane or a true calculated killer, that doesn’t dismiss the

Just talking to the man wouldn’t make you think that he was mentally insane, but the thoughts and feeling he describes in the text displays him as a totally different person. You think, what would lead someone to kill an innocent person? What kind of grudge or motive would make someone believe the only option to resolving the problem was to take their life and rid themselves of their presence forever? When looking into the story we are told by the man himself who says, “Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. Never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire” (Paragraph 2). A calculated killer is not only going to have a plan, but is going to have reason for murdering someone. As people who are not mentally insane and don’t plan on killing someone this is hard for us to understand. The morals and the beliefs that we have set for ourselves make it hard to comprehend how someone would ever be able to murder someone no matter the reason. A mentally insane person , like the man in the story, who is unable to control his emotions and has lost the ability to understand the extent of his crime, and this allows him to be able to execute a crime like this without understanding the true