This is the story of a Butler obsessed with his old master’s ill eye, or as he calls it, “the raven eye”. The Butler claims he is feeling how the eye looks at him and into his soul and how the eye is evil. Therefore, he takes the decision to disappear it for ever, and after a really well planned murder he ends up turning himself in, because he feels the guilt of his actions falling on him. Tell Tale Heart constructs a theme about how culpability can drive people into madness, this is accomplished through the evolution of a proud, astute man, into a violent loony as the story moves through the stages of the murder, the cleaning of the crime, and the arrival of the policemen.
