The Old Man Is The Tell-Tale Heart Insane Man
Madness, in the eye of the beholder
A narrative is a retelling of evets, told from the narrator’s point of view the story is about the evets leading up to and after an old man is murdered. “True! –nervous—very dreadfully nervous I had bee and I am: but why will you say that I am mad? (Kennedy, X.J. P37) From the very beginning of this story is very clear that the narrator is questioning himself, his sanity. The narrator, although a possibly unreliable source reveals that he has many obsessions, obsession with the time, the old man’s evil eye, and the old man’s beating heart; why he is even obsessed with proving his own sanity. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is a glimpse into an insane man, the narrator’s mind, is no different than any other narrative tale. …show more content…
The narrator patiently watches the old man while shining a ray of light on his obsession – the eye of the old man. On the eigth night eye open, sitting on the bed, as if waiting for the unkown, the obsessed narrator kills the old man. After the crazed narrator dismembers him, he removes floor planks and stashs the body parts out of sight. As we journey through the mind of the narrator, continues to believe he is not mad. The emotion portrayed through the narrators words makes the read want to believe him. For instance, the narrator, at one point simply says, “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” Wanting the reader to believe this is normal, as if to say; I cooked dinner and washed all the dishes – just another house
A narrative is a retelling of evets, told from the narrator’s point of view the story is about the evets leading up to and after an old man is murdered. “True! –nervous—very dreadfully nervous I had bee and I am: but why will you say that I am mad? (Kennedy, X.J. P37) From the very beginning of this story is very clear that the narrator is questioning himself, his sanity. The narrator, although a possibly unreliable source reveals that he has many obsessions, obsession with the time, the old man’s evil eye, and the old man’s beating heart; why he is even obsessed with proving his own sanity. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is a glimpse into an insane man, the narrator’s mind, is no different than any other narrative tale. …show more content…
The narrator patiently watches the old man while shining a ray of light on his obsession – the eye of the old man. On the eigth night eye open, sitting on the bed, as if waiting for the unkown, the obsessed narrator kills the old man. After the crazed narrator dismembers him, he removes floor planks and stashs the body parts out of sight. As we journey through the mind of the narrator, continues to believe he is not mad. The emotion portrayed through the narrators words makes the read want to believe him. For instance, the narrator, at one point simply says, “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” Wanting the reader to believe this is normal, as if to say; I cooked dinner and washed all the dishes – just another house