Analysis Of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

Humanity commonly associates any man, women, or child into different categorizes of its form of conformity where individuals differing from the social norm are often placed under the category of a mental illness. Consequently, society categorizes human beings with different mental comprehensive knowledges under different medical forms of mental illnesses. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the author, Edgar Allen Poe, presents a narrator that is quite unique from the social norm that makes one wonder what is the possible logical reasoning behind his abnormal behavior. Subsequently, we, as human beings, commonly choose to follow the most logical explanation to believe that the narrator has a mental illness due to his actions and thoughts in the story.

Subsequently, one aspect of tots definition is an individual attributing irrelevant aspects of society or humanistic parts to fabricate a fictional illusion of significance to the individual. The narrator claims, “For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye”. He seemingly shows compassion towards the old man, yet he is unable to overcome the glorification of the old man’s purposed “Evil Eye”. He ultimately attributes the old man’s eye as a source of impurity or wickedness in the shape of a human eye and believes it should be exterminated from the world. Additionally, an individual’s fabrication of mystical beliefs that are nonexistent in the world is another aspect of the disorder. The narrator illustrates, “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth”. He creates a magical mindset that he is able to hear both in the existence of earth and the afterlife where no individual is able to do. He also presents himself as a God-like figure possessing God’s power of communication between both the living and dead in which to inflate his significance and his capabilities. Furthermore, an individual under the disorder idealizes his or her persecution from others intentionally wanting to inflict any harm to the individual. The narrator emphasizes, “They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought and this I think”. He fictionalizes the police officers know his crime and they were trying to deliberately induce harm and pain of guilt to him for his confession. Even though the police were solely conversing in a pleasant matter, the narrator allows his imaginative prediction of their thoughts to manifest his feelings that he was being fooled and laughed at. Unfortunately, the narrator’s Schizotypal Personality disorder is not the final contribution to his mental