The Tell-Tale Heart

Thesis Statement

The Tell-Tale Heart demonstrates by the use of several literary factors and techniques the inner conflict, the state of madness, and emotional breakdown that one's mind could impose upon itself.

Introduction

In Edgar Allan Poe most famous novel "The tell-tale Heart" (1843) Poe gives a psychological portrait of an insane narrator, who tells of his murder the old man. "The telltale heart" just "a tale of conscience" in which Poe reveals the darker side of humanity by giving it short story psychological thrills www.web.ebscohost.com. Narrator or a madman in the story tells the first man, therefore, the reader can not determine how much what he said is true. Although the narrator repeatedly states that he was sane, the reader suspects otherwise because of his bizarre reasoning, behavior and speech. Psychotic reasoning, psychotic delusions, and psychotic behavior in the history of three reasons that lead to the effect and that also demonstrate insanity narrator.

Discussion

Psychotic thinking or reasoning narrator is one of the major causes of murder in the hearts of the alarm. “In the narrator says with dismay in the first line of the story: "True-nervous-very, very badly, I was nervous and I, but why do you say that I am mad?" (wwww.eb.ebscohost.com). Thus, the narrator explains at once that he was suffering from the disease, but it assumes that just because she did not dull his senses. After Poe narrator describes a state of mind at the beginning of the story, the reader soon realizes that the narrator is, in fact, plunged into frenzy. Narrator stated goal is not recognition, but with a hunger to prove his sanity. In an attempt to prove it, Poe writes the narrator saying "I heard everything in heaven and on earth. I've heard many things in hell. How do I mad? Listen! And watch ...