Tell Tale Heart Psychopath

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"The tell tale heart" (" the tell tale heart")is this awesome story on a psychopathical narrator, that will shock you when you find out what he does in the story. The narrator of the tell tale heart has psychopath tendencies. One of the tendencies is impulsivity. Impulsivity means that you can't resist temptations, frustrations, and urges. Another tendency is self-worth. Meaning that he things he so much better than everyone else. He thinks highly of himself. The third tendencies that the narrator has is shallow affect. Shallow affect meaning that he limited range of emotions. In The Tell Tale Heart the narrator has these psychopathical tendencies. In the story the narrator explains that he likes the old man but he hates his eye. Which he calls the "Evil Eye". He can't resist the temptation of doing something about the evil eye. So, for seven days he watches the old man sleep every night at midnight. On the eighth night his thumb slipped …show more content…
I can see where you are coming from. But the narrator was drunk. He had a drinking problem so when he did what he did to the cat and the wife, he was only drunk. He did it out of drunk anger. Although he has some psychopathical tendencies, that doesn't make him psychopathical. At least everyone has three or less tendencies. Even though the narrator of The Tell Heart (" tell tale heart") has a side that isn't psychopathical, like everyone does. Just like the narrator from the Black Cat has a psychopathol side and a normal side. His psychopathol side does not show as often, and it only shows when something touches his heart. For example, the cat he loved the cat, but once he bit him and he took the cats eye out and the cat kept running from him in fear. He got mad, because he loved that cat so when he was running from him in fear, his heart got touched and he went all

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