The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher focuses on the subject of insanity, which means to be in a state of madness. Both stories differ from each other in the type of insanity the characters are encountering. Insanity in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher have numerous effects on the characters of the story who are dealing with fear and death. The Tell-Tale Heart has to do with murdering an old man and The Fall of the House Of Usher deals with death, sickness, and being fearful. Two different types of insanity take place in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher.
The state of being seriously mentally ill or mad is known as insanity. The type of Insanity The Tell-Tale Heart deals with is madness because …show more content…
Insanity effects the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart due to how the narrator's thought process works. The old man’s eye was the narrator's incentive to kill him, and his mind was telling him he should kill the man because of that. The narrator did not have a valid reason to kill the old man as he did nothing wrong and can not control how he looks. Insanity effects the narrator another way by how the narrator's constantly on edge. When police question the narrator, the narrator confesses the crime because he hears the sound of a heartbeat, the man’s heartbeat. On the other hand, The Fall of the House of Usher deals with gloom and being mentally disabled. Insanity affects Roderick by the way he perceives certain things. Roderick has a negative, hopeless outlook on life, especially that his sister Madeline might die due to his illness. Insanity affects Roderick another way because he is very isolated from society. Roderick does not have good social skills and suffers from that. Roderick’s affected when Madeline dies and is supposedly killed by his sister. All of the characters in both stories are affected, whether it’s pure madness, or a mental
The state of being seriously mentally ill or mad is known as insanity. The type of Insanity The Tell-Tale Heart deals with is madness because …show more content…
Insanity effects the narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart due to how the narrator's thought process works. The old man’s eye was the narrator's incentive to kill him, and his mind was telling him he should kill the man because of that. The narrator did not have a valid reason to kill the old man as he did nothing wrong and can not control how he looks. Insanity effects the narrator another way by how the narrator's constantly on edge. When police question the narrator, the narrator confesses the crime because he hears the sound of a heartbeat, the man’s heartbeat. On the other hand, The Fall of the House of Usher deals with gloom and being mentally disabled. Insanity affects Roderick by the way he perceives certain things. Roderick has a negative, hopeless outlook on life, especially that his sister Madeline might die due to his illness. Insanity affects Roderick another way because he is very isolated from society. Roderick does not have good social skills and suffers from that. Roderick’s affected when Madeline dies and is supposedly killed by his sister. All of the characters in both stories are affected, whether it’s pure madness, or a mental