The Tell Tale Heart Response

The Tell - Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, which was published in 1843 talking about how a ‘Madman’ let an ‘obsession’ get to him which got him into causing murder and later feeling ‘guilt’. This was during an 8th days of progress event. This book is told in a first point of view, and the narrator is the ‘madman’ himself. The central idea is the narrator has an addiction to an eye of a old man whom he lives with/looks after, the eye was described as “He had the eye of the vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it.”...(Poe, para. 2) and being the madman he was he was determined to kill him, just to end a ‘obsession’ he had with the eye. The narrator explains his madness at the beginning by showing himself as an
But when the old man got his feelings caught up to him he told the police. When he first did it he felt no shame “I smiled - for what had I to fear?”... (Poe, para. 15) But when he felt guilt he made it extremely obvious “No doubt I now grew very pale; but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice. Yet the sound increased”... (Poe, para 17) The guilt got to the best of him and he bursted! “ “Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”... (Poe, para.
For example the narrator used “cautious” 5 times to emphasize the precautions he took, to show how wise he was. But in retrospect a madman would have never done that because they wouldn’t ever think of such ideas. He also made a lot of references to “steadily’ to prove his point again of how wise he was. Some Other words he used was “foresight”, “dissimulation”, “cunningly”, “courageously”, “very patiently”, “perfectly distinctness”, “acuteness”, “cleverly”, fullest extent as he explains it), and just do it because it was irritating him. “audacity”, and “perfect triumph”, proving that he could not be a madman (or at least to an