Story’s theme The short stories of Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is nonetheless a heartfelt and, at times, unclear investigation of a man's paranoia. Human being character is normally an insubstantial sense of balance of brightness and dim or good and vice. For the most part of the time uncertain balance is sustained; however, when there is a shift, for whatever the reason, the dark or perverse side surfaces. How and why this dark side emerges differs from person to person. What may push one individual over the edge? Will only cause a raised eyebrow in another? In this case, it is the vulture eye of the old man that makes the narrator's blood run cold. It is this irrational fear which evokes the dark side, and eventually leads to murder. In this