How Does The Narrator Perceive The Wickedness Of An Old Man

Naturally, humans have a balance between righteousness and wickedness. However, there are times that may provoke the wickedness of a person to be shown. It is easy to depict how the narrator perceives the old man. This old man genuinely terrifies him, especially with this “eye”of his. The narrator exaggerates most of the outcomes having to do with this old man. In “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe the narrator's state of mentality and desires are perceived through the literary element explicat.
To the narrator, he does not perceive himself as an insane, or “mad” person.“True! nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?...” He is vividly trying to persuade that he is not crazy but yet he is very anxious. He proceeded to
“You should have seen how wisely I proceeded,with what caution, with what foresight, with what dissimulation I went to work!”
He describes himself as a very thoughtful and clever and devious person. He did not drag any negative attention to himself for he had been nothing but kind to the old man as time proceeds. Throughout this process he really emphasised everything he does. “and every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it, oh so gently…” “I undid the lantern cautiously oh, so cautiously, cautiously....” He of course did not wish to be noticed or awaken the old man as he would watch him every night at around midnight as he slept.
The narrator describes how anxious he is through the usage of explicate. “...so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder!” The narrator’s anxiety concerning the situation unfolding grows ever so great. It is symbolized through the supposed beating of the heart. It can be concluded that through the specified occurrences of the environment lead to pinpointing this