telltale heart
"TRUE!--nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. The narrator of the story is a mad man that is haunted by his idea that the old man has an evil eye. There are two conflicts that occur with the story: internal and external. The internal conflict is the narrator's guilt over killing the old man forces him to believe that he hears the dead man's heart beating. "I talked more quickly-more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased.". Ones owns conscience can only take so much before the person breaks down. "Oh God! What could I do? I foamed-I raved-I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased." The external conflict is the eye itself; the narrator feels that the old man's eye is always watching him in turn
The fact that the narrator was way too overly patient and dedicated to stalking the old man night after night, at midnight, seven days before he decides to commit his evil deed. When ones actions that are thought out with knowing the harsh consequences are a key sign to madness. We must fight the urge and accept it fully, to be excepted and considered normal. "Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust in! I moved it slowly-very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. Emotions are those not to be put aside or forgotten about. Either it be good or bad like the narrators feelings towards the old man's eye. He thinks he is skillful and not mad. Was obviously the act of a keen madman. Ones own subconscious mind could create emotions that can persuade one to do deeds in which he/she never thought of. Which caused his emotional break down. State of madness is very implicit in this case. It was the beating of the old man's heart. "If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body.
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