“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story which the author uses to provide a study of paranoia and the deterioration of mental states. The short story describes nameless man, who explains that he is not an insane man, but simply has a “disease” which makes all his senses to become sensitive. Every midnight, the narrator goes to an old man’s room and conspires to murder the potential victim. He does not possess any personal rivalries or hatred against old man, and in fact loves the very person he wishes to die. Yet, the old man’s pale blue eyes terrify him to the extent he considers partaking in such extreme actions. Each night the narrator visits the old man, his victim’s eyes are closed and therefore no murder takes place.
