Tell Tale Heart

'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is a very famous story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the year 1843. The story is about a man (narrator in this story) who is trying to prove that he is not mad but nervous over the murder he was involved in of the old man. The narrator explains that the old man had done nothing to him that could make the narrator mad. The narrator claims to be scared of the blue eyes that he could not stand. So, the narrator decided to kill the old man so that he did not had to see it again and be scared and nervous and oversensitive.

The story begins with the explanation from the narrator as he tries to defend himself about the fact that he was not mad. He thinks he is perfectly healthy and had the disease had sharpened him and his senses even more. The narrator loved the old man. He had done nothing wrong to the narrator and was living happily. But there was something that was bothering the narrator all the time. The Pale Blue Eyes of the old man. The narrator used to be scared and frightened by the eyes of the old man, whenever it fell on him. So the narrator makes a plan or thinks about killing the old man so that he does not have to live in fear and could get rid of those eyes.

As the story moves on, the narrator describes himself mad in front of the readers and explains the week he spent before murdering the old man. The narrator describes he had been so nice to the old man before the week. He was very careful and wise on his proceeds or moves. He used to go to the old man room every night around midnight and take a peak at the old man’s eyes. He used to focus the light from the lantern directly to the eyes and could see them closed. But since the narrator hated the eyes but not the old man as a person, he was unable to perform the murder in the absence of the closed eyes. He repeated the process of checking the old mans eyes for seven long nights and always found it closed. He describes the eyes as the...