![]() ![]() ![]() He writes, “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold and so, by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” ( Tell-Tale Heart 1572).īeing angered by the man’s eye is such an insignificant reason for the narrator to kill him, which proves that he is not mentally stable. The rationale the narrator provides is that he thinks the desire to murder the old man results from the man’s eye, which bothers him a great deal. Madness is apparent in the unreasonable rationality the narrator uses to justify his murder. For his gold I had no desire” ( Tell-Tale Heart 1572). In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator realizes that he lacks a motive for killing the old man he shares a house with. ![]() Madness is represented in both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat through the narrators’ lack of sufficient reasoning for committing murder. This essay will argue that Poe represents madness in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat through the narrators’ lack of motivation to commit murder and the linguistic and structural elements of the texts. Poe has a unique way of showing this madness in these texts. Each of the narrators commits and successfully conceals murder, but ultimately gets caught because of their own insanity. ![]()
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