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The Narrator's Mental Condition In The Tell Tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “Tell-Tale Heart” is a chilling story that entails a man’s, the narrator in the story, psychological conditions and his evil intentions that is carried out. Poe’s short story depicts the mind of a murder and his odd obsessions that causes his paranoia and unstable condition to overwhelm him, which eventually causes him to murder an old man. “ True!–-nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad?...Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story”, we can tell right off the bat that the narrator’s mental health is highly questionable and that he is unreliable. The beginning lines represent the narrator’s personal conflict that he is trying
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