Calculated Killer Or Mentally Insane Analysis
Calculated Killer or Mentally Insane?
Good and evil go hand in hand in everything, including those that have claimed to be perfectly twisted. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the short story shows that even the most perfect crimes can turn twisted and evil. During the 1840’s there is a caregiver and a narrator who is also a cold-blooded killer who develops a hate towards the eye of the old man he was taking care of. The narrator claims it made his “blood run cold”, and so he decides to kill the old man in order to get rid of the haunting eye. At the old man’s house, the narrator commits a foolproof crime in efforts to kill the old man, but not even the purest misdeeds can last forever. Because the narrator premeditates the case and …show more content…
The definition of a calculated killer is to have ¨malice aforethought (prior intention to kill the particular victim or anyone who gets in the way) and with no legal excuse or authority; premeditated.” Only a calculated killer could propose such a precise plan beforehand, as someone mentally insane would only kill solely based on instinct. In the exposition, the narrator contemplates about the motive for his crime, he concludes that ¨...it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (1). If the narrator was insane, he would, like any other insane person, directly kill. But alas, this is not the case. Careful and attentive, he takes time to observe his victim in his natural habitat, and wait patiently for the right time to strike.Adding on to the malicious thought of premeditating as a calculated killer, the narrator also intentionally assassinates the old man during the night. As he stalks the old man for nights on end, the narrator also mulls over his
Good and evil go hand in hand in everything, including those that have claimed to be perfectly twisted. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the short story shows that even the most perfect crimes can turn twisted and evil. During the 1840’s there is a caregiver and a narrator who is also a cold-blooded killer who develops a hate towards the eye of the old man he was taking care of. The narrator claims it made his “blood run cold”, and so he decides to kill the old man in order to get rid of the haunting eye. At the old man’s house, the narrator commits a foolproof crime in efforts to kill the old man, but not even the purest misdeeds can last forever. Because the narrator premeditates the case and …show more content…
The definition of a calculated killer is to have ¨malice aforethought (prior intention to kill the particular victim or anyone who gets in the way) and with no legal excuse or authority; premeditated.” Only a calculated killer could propose such a precise plan beforehand, as someone mentally insane would only kill solely based on instinct. In the exposition, the narrator contemplates about the motive for his crime, he concludes that ¨...it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (1). If the narrator was insane, he would, like any other insane person, directly kill. But alas, this is not the case. Careful and attentive, he takes time to observe his victim in his natural habitat, and wait patiently for the right time to strike.Adding on to the malicious thought of premeditating as a calculated killer, the narrator also intentionally assassinates the old man during the night. As he stalks the old man for nights on end, the narrator also mulls over his