The Grisly Murder Of The Tell Tale Heart Analysis
2 The Grisly Murder of the Tell Tale Heart “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.” - Edgar Allen Poe
This quote along with all his other insane sounding quotes explains what happened to the narrator perfectly, because he spent too much time in his own mind thinking about the old man's eye and it eventually drove him insane before the murder ever took place. The narrator is insane because first of all he had a disease which made him hear things that a normal man could not. He also claims says he can hear an old man's heart from all across the room and thinks a neighbor might hear it, and furthermore, he was raving, cursing, and dragging his chair across the floor which further the case that the narrator is insane.
For example, in the beginning of the story the narrator tries to say that he is not insane but sane. But then he says a series of insane quotes throughout the entire story. Like this one :
“ I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” This quote means that if a man who can hear things from all these different places he is insane. He is insane because a sane man wouldn't be able to hear all those things. So it says that he is clearly unstable and insane and should not be found sane in the …show more content…
In the narrator's words “ The beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart might burst. And a new anxiety seized me - the sound would be heard by a neighbor!” Everyone knows it is all in his mind and is just imagining it . And him saying that he could hear it from across the room from that far away proves he's insane, especially him thinking the neighbors would hear it. This statement is good because a sane man wouldn't hear a heart a beating heart from that far away and it's great evidence that could get him sent to a mental
This quote along with all his other insane sounding quotes explains what happened to the narrator perfectly, because he spent too much time in his own mind thinking about the old man's eye and it eventually drove him insane before the murder ever took place. The narrator is insane because first of all he had a disease which made him hear things that a normal man could not. He also claims says he can hear an old man's heart from all across the room and thinks a neighbor might hear it, and furthermore, he was raving, cursing, and dragging his chair across the floor which further the case that the narrator is insane.
For example, in the beginning of the story the narrator tries to say that he is not insane but sane. But then he says a series of insane quotes throughout the entire story. Like this one :
“ I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” This quote means that if a man who can hear things from all these different places he is insane. He is insane because a sane man wouldn't be able to hear all those things. So it says that he is clearly unstable and insane and should not be found sane in the …show more content…
In the narrator's words “ The beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart might burst. And a new anxiety seized me - the sound would be heard by a neighbor!” Everyone knows it is all in his mind and is just imagining it . And him saying that he could hear it from across the room from that far away proves he's insane, especially him thinking the neighbors would hear it. This statement is good because a sane man wouldn't hear a heart a beating heart from that far away and it's great evidence that could get him sent to a mental