Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

Ba-boom! Ba-boom! Ba-boom! Silence. The police officers yanked at my arms and dragged me into court. After waiting 6 hours for the verdict, the jury comes out. “We find the defendant to be.....” While the killer/narrator sat with the police officers, he heard the repetitive beating of the old man’s heart until he couldn’t take it anymore. He finally exclaimed the horrible deed he had done. The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” should be decided as guilty according to clever planning and a personal statement of committing the crime.

No matter what, the criminal needs to receive punishment for the crime they committed. The idea of acting out on any rational thought like this would definitely be considered as sane. Admitting you did the
At the time you would commit such a crime as this, you would have to think and plan very carefully and try your best not to panic. In this part of the story, the narrator is definitely trying to be careful once the old man had died. He had to know what to do at the time, which causes “clever planning” “First of all, I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head, the arms, and the legs.” The narrator was using “clever planning” to hide the body to just make precautions. It shows he was making sure he wasn’t caught, and used his prior knowledge to hide the body, which is what a sane person would do.

The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” would be thought to be counted guilty according to his prior planning of his crime and a personal statement, which proves he committed the crime. Overall, evidence of admitting the crime, his prior planning, and taking precautions shows he is a very clever criminal. In conclusion, the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is proven to be the devious killer he first came out to be, and proves not to be insane but extremely