The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe explores the murder of an old man and tries to convince that the murderer is in a state of sanity. The murderer, the unnamed narrator, tells the story from the first person point of view, vividly dramatizing the process of the murder in precise sequence. Allegedly, the old man 's blue eye vexes the narrator to the point of the murder. This story reveals how guilt and one 's conscious cannot bare the psychological trauma of murder. Poe uses symbolism to relation fictional elements to realistic circumstances, imagery to emphasize the narrator’s guilt, and a hysterical tone to confuse the reader of the unnamed narrator 's actual sanity.
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However, Poe allows the narrator to tell the story in a playful tone whereas is obvious at some points that the narrator is quite frantic. The narrator claims that the disease that he has "sharpened his senses" (Poe). The alterations in the man 's normal senses leaves the readers with openness to assume that the narrator could have suffered from psychological distress and that his emotions were a motivating force in the murder. However, the narrator’s senses were sharpened and not impaired. At the beginning of the story, the narrator tranquilly narrates the audience through his venture. As the story inclines, the author becomes nervous. This is evidence that the author is sane. If he were to be insane, he would not so carefully go about murdering the old man nor be experiencing anxiety. Poe is illustrating a fallacy to show how quickly people will conclude that a person has a psychological handicap because of their unique train of thought. When one understands that one is not ill because of one 's way of expressing oneself, more people will realize that the ways in which we express ourselves do not make our wrongdoing worthy of