Guilt...Fear...Damnation
             Guilt, a feeling of uneasiness and discomfort, is a sensation that nearly all individuals may have experienced at one time or another. Throughout life, it is through guilt, instilled by society, that one is able to decipher between what is right, otherwise known as the norm and what is wrong and forbidden. From youth, these feelings of guilt[,] (and) apprehension as well as the strength of one's conscience, are elements incessantly reinforced via movies such as Pinocchio, the education one receives from both parents and school and the various situations an individual may experience throughout his or her own life. Through reading A Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe,(one may perceive) [ it is clearly perceptible] that the character's guilt evolves into fear and thus, becomes the true source of his own damnation.
             "But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall." Here, I believe the author flawlessly demonstrates the character's guilt for killing the poor old man on a dark gloomy night without a reasonable motive. Later, this guilt evolves into fear. Though the character may be portrayed to be fearful of others hearing or learning of his horrific deed, I believe he is, in actuality, frightened by his own mind and its creation of these vicious thoughts and ideas. In denial, he proceeds in his efforts to convince the reader that he truly is not insane; when in reality it is himself he is trying to prove. In order to relinquish its desires, he kills the man in hopes that he will satisfy his feelings, only to learn that they continue to haunt him, portrayed by the everlasting heart beat that persists even after killing the old man.
             Unable to convince those around him of his sanity, the character realizes that he has failed. He confessed to the murder and turns himself in to the police,
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