The Tell-Tale Heart Insane

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“I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it” Edgar Allan Poe once said. This quote from Poe says that he is insane, but does not suffer because it does not bother him. The narrator of the story The Tell-Tale Heart is fully insane in the state of murdering because he chose to murder only because of the eye. In the beginning of the story The Tell-Tale Heart, The narrator clearly states that he killed the man for his eye. To prove this he said, “But I found the eye always closed and so it was impossible to do the work, for it was not the man who vexed me, but his evil eye.” The murderer is waiting for the eye to open so he can kill him. It proves that he is insane because he would only do it if he could see the eye. Furthermore…

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