The Tell-Tale Heart: A Psychopath Killer

A Psychopath killer In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe shows the hidden darkness of the insane narrator. Narrator says “TRUE!—NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”(Poe). Narrator claims to be nervous but not mad. Narrator says that he likes the old man but he does not like his vulture looking eye. Narrator gets mad when he looks at old man’s eye. All he wants to do is get rid of the old man’s eyes. The only way narrator thought of getting rid of those vulture looking eye is by killing an old man. He admits that he did not wanted to kill an old man but he did not saw any other way to get rid of those …show more content…
He describes the old man’s eye as the eye of a vulture. He said that those vulture looking eye took peace away from him. When talking about the old man, narrator said “He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it” (Poe). Narrator says how good the old man was to him and had never done anything bad to him. He had no interest in old man’s money or property, but he could not see old man’s eye every day. He was so mad after seeing old man’s eye every day that he could not think of any other way besides killing an old man to get rid of the pale, blue eye. One week before the murder, narrator explains how carefully he got into the old man’s room around mid-night and looks carefully into the old man’s vulture looking eye. Every morning narrator used to become very polite and ask the old man how was his sleep. Until the night of the murder narrator did not gave the old man any clue about his intentions to kill the old man. Narrator always thought of old man and his eye as the two separate things. So, he killed the old man because of his vulture looking eye but he still says that he loves the old man. Though narrator is aware of the things that is happening around him and he thinks he is in control but all the small things that was happening around him bothered …show more content…
In the story after killing the old man, he himself explains how he did it, ““First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs” (Poe). He says how ruthlessly he dismembers the old man’s dead body. Narrator wants to make sure that everything is done perfectly and he does not want to live any sign of evidence. He hides the old man’s body under the wooden planks of the old man’s room’s floor. He made it look like nothing happened in that room. Narrator desperately wants to be known as a normal person but his way of thinking and actions creates the