Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" consists of a monologue in
             which the murderer of an old man protests his insanity rather than his guilt: "You fancy
             me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen
             how wisely I proceeded..."By the narrator insisting so emphatically that he is sane, the
             reader is assured that he is indeed deranged. By using this irony the narrator creates a
             feeling of hysteria, and the turmoil resulting from this hysteria is what makes the "The
             Tell-Tale Heart" so interesting and unique. The true focus of the tale ,however, is the
             Various information derives from the short story that reveals many different aspects
             concerning the main character's personality and psychological state.
             In the first line of the story the killer tells us that the murder has changed nothing
             as to his mental state: "dreadfully nervous I had been and am". He also insists that he
             is not mad, but perfectly sane. And being very persistent he sets out to prove his sanity
             by explaining to us how he planed and executed the perfect murder. However, the
             reader soon realises that the fear of the vulture eye has consumed the narrator, who
             has now become a victim to the madness which he had hoped to elude. Continuing he
             points out: "but why will you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my
             senses -not destroyed-not dulled them...". The disease in this case is obviously a
             severe case of emotions, nervousness among them. Thus, even in the story the
             narrator realises that he is overcome with emotions, and as such he must confess the
             repulsive murder of an unarmed old man.
             Ofcourse, there is no doubt that the protagonist is in an unbalanced state of mind.
             The madman is quite logical and reasonable, but in an contradictory way; the narrator
             has the facilities to reason and plan but ...