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"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
" He is dishonest though for he wasn't going to tell the police about the dead body until his subconscious thoughts made him believe that they too heard the horrifying heart beat of the old man. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. We must fight the urge and accept it fully, to be excepted and considered normal. " This also gives us the reader the hint of him being mad. Ones own subconscious mind could create emotions that can persuade one to do deeds in which he/she never thought of. Was obviously the act of a keen madman. When ones actions that are thought out with knowing the harsh consequences are a key sign to madness. 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. He does not seem to be caring, yet he does state he loved the old man.
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