Examples Of Insanity In Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
The protagonists from Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories are usually insane people with revenge and murder in their mind. Firstly, they deny insanity and try to hide it. Secondly, always seek revenge without giving proper explanation as to why. Finally, they always seek out their revenge by committing a murder, proving that denying insanity is the easiest way to prove to be insane.
First of all, all of the protagonists from Poe’s short stories try to hide their insanity, therefore proving them to be mad. For example, right at the beginning of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator claims that he is not mad and that madmen know nothing. He is proving that he is very well mad due to the tone and diction used by the author to make it seem like the narrator of this story is greatly affected by dramatic irony, where he doesn’t know that he is insane while the reader does. Another example from one of Poe’s stories is “The Masque of the Red Death”, where the Duke, who is the protagonist of this short story, is hiding his insanity in his particularly colored rooms, where he …show more content…
For example, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montressor, the protagonist, describes how he wants to seek revenge on Fortunato and saying that he did something so wrong and trying to give a justification for his chaos, such as burying Fortunato alive, while he is not giving a full explanation. To add, in “The Tell-Tale Heart” from Poe, the narrator isn’t sure what is making him so mad as to kill the old man, but he somehow lands on his eye, saying it has the character of a vulture. This is no real reason to seek revenge on the old man, just because he has a weird eye and it seems like the protagonist landed on that reason so randomly that he was just insane and wanted revenge, but had to come up with a reason so they could hide their
First of all, all of the protagonists from Poe’s short stories try to hide their insanity, therefore proving them to be mad. For example, right at the beginning of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator claims that he is not mad and that madmen know nothing. He is proving that he is very well mad due to the tone and diction used by the author to make it seem like the narrator of this story is greatly affected by dramatic irony, where he doesn’t know that he is insane while the reader does. Another example from one of Poe’s stories is “The Masque of the Red Death”, where the Duke, who is the protagonist of this short story, is hiding his insanity in his particularly colored rooms, where he …show more content…
For example, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montressor, the protagonist, describes how he wants to seek revenge on Fortunato and saying that he did something so wrong and trying to give a justification for his chaos, such as burying Fortunato alive, while he is not giving a full explanation. To add, in “The Tell-Tale Heart” from Poe, the narrator isn’t sure what is making him so mad as to kill the old man, but he somehow lands on his eye, saying it has the character of a vulture. This is no real reason to seek revenge on the old man, just because he has a weird eye and it seems like the protagonist landed on that reason so randomly that he was just insane and wanted revenge, but had to come up with a reason so they could hide their