The Tell-Tale Heart Insane

The narrator of a “The Tell-Tale Heart” gives the readers a brief inside look of what goes on in the mind of someone who is insane. In this short story the narrator is trying to plea his case of being a sane human being. Once he starts his story later one a reader might pick up a few hints of how insane the narrator actually is. His or her thoughts do not even match up with what runs through the mind of a sane person. The narrator himself has proven that he is a psychotic murderer and that he is mentally deranged. In the very opening of the short story the narrator explained to the readers that he is nervous, “TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” () If this person is actually …show more content…
In most cases a pale blue eye means the person is blind in that particular eye. A sane person would view this eye as the eye of a vulture. If anything he or she might fell sympathetic towards this person because of what might have happened to his eye. The narrator of automatically thought the worse of the old man and immediately wanted to end his life. The idea of ending the life an innocent person stuck in the narrator’s head and he or she could not shake this thought, he or she became obsessed with the idea. The narrator needed to make himself fell better so his mission to get rid of the eye that haunted …show more content…
Once the old man is dead, the narrator proceeds to cut up the man’s body and hide him in the floor of the old man’s house because the police have arrived. A person who is insane would act as if nothing happened and show the policemen around the house and start a casual conversation with them. The narrator even had the audacity to sit in the old man’s bed and tell the officers that he had gone away for a couple days. The narrator’s “disease” that heightened his hearing had finally caught up to him in the end. Any person who so called hears a heart beat pounding through his or her ears after he or she has just murdered someone is insane. The guilt of the narrator started to eat him or her alive, and the noise had become excruciatingly loud within his or her head. With this madness going on in the narrator’s head he or she cracked and told the officer what happened and where the body was. The guilt had taken over and he or she could no longer live a