Insanity And Tell Tale Heart Comparison

Insanity is the state of being mad and outrageous. It can drive people to do foolish or irrational things and it can emotionally and mentally change someone, making them a different person. The theme of insanity is depicted in Pablo Picasso’s Cubist Style Self Portrait. In this artwork, the various symbols of madness can be connected to that of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the story of an insane narrator and his obsession with another man’s eye, which leads him to kill the man. Picasso’s Cubist Style Self Portrait, and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” similarly use symbols such as shapes and images, colors, and human features to paint a picture of insanity. The painting can be compared to the short story because of the abstract shapes and images used to create the artwork. This aspect of the painting gives the audience the same feel of appearance vs. reality that we get after reading “The Tell-Tale Heart”. This is because in the painting, which depicts an abstract portrait of a woman, the viewer can see two sides of the figure in the painting: one that seems to depict insanity and another that represents sanity. The left side of the painting represents sanity, and how the narrator of “The …show more content…
The portrait is an abstract work with many unusual colors. The right side of the face is peculiar because of the blue used to create the facial features, which are not shown in their appropriate locations. The color blue on the right side of the figures face can be compared to the frantic mood that is depicted in the story when the man with the eye sees the narrator. Also, the outer part of the eye on the right side of the painting is red. This is similar to the theme of insanity presented to the reader in “The Tell-Tale Heart” because the color red represents anger, determinate, and desire, which are all presented to us in this short