Analysis Of Insanity In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Albert Einstein once said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator secretly murders an old man for his strange looking eyeball. Once done reading this story, the author too reveals that the murder was insane for killing the old man for a number of reasons. For instance, when the narrator begins to go into the old man's room every night to spy on him, he claims “For it was not the old man I felt I had to kill; it was the eye, his Evil Eye.” As a result of this, the narrator only decided to kill the old man for his eyeball and had no other reason even though he loved the man. While it is true that the narrator was still nice