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Take The Tell Tale Heart Psychopath Analysis

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There are many signs of someone being a psychopath you never know the person living in your house could be a psychopath. Take the Tell Tale Heart for example the narrator was nice to the old man living in his house but because of his eye he wanted to kill him. Then after he murdered him he took cops through his house calm and like there was not a problem. Then he felt so great that he put a chair right where he had buried the old man's body.

He wanted to kill the old man because of his eye. The narrator said he loved the old man but it was because of his eye he wanted to kill him. He has a lack of remorse or guilt. He also has grandiose self worth(Psychopathic). These mean that he doesn't care about others feelings and he thinks he is superior. He had a motive to kill the old man because of his eye but that is not a great reason to kill somebody though he still did because he thought it was a excellent plan making him superior.

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This shows off again a lack of remorse or guilt. Then it again shows off grandiose self worth(Psychopathic). He thought his crime was so well planned out he thought he was smarter than others he felt no guilt at all so he put his chair right where the man's body was. This could have been taken as he felt guilty for his crimes he just put it there so it was harder to find the body but in the text it says " feeling so accomplished that I put my chair right where I buried the old man's body" (Edgar, Allan Poe)

This why the narrator from the Tale Tell Heart is a psychopath. He killed the old man because of his eye. Then after he murdered him he took cops through his house calm and there was not a problem lastly he felt so great that he put a chair right where he had buried the old man's body was. This shows off many psychopathic tendencies that he had. This one of the craziest people we have read

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