A Madman In Edgar Allan Poe's A Tell-Tale Heart

Another time Montresor showed relentlessness was when he said his heart grew sick. After everything happened, “My heart grew sick - on account of the dampness of the catacombs.”(page 4) Right there he could 've been thinking about what he had just did, and be regretting what he just did. Then he says, “to the account of the catacombs.”, what he means there is he is telling you what it could be, and not on regret. Montresor completes killing Fortunato with his intelligence, loyalty, and relentlessness of what Fortunato did to him. “The Cask of Amontillado” is about Montresor killing Fortunato, because he insulted him.

This shows that he is not in control of his own morals because a trivial reason made him want to kill someone he loved. So, how could you say that he is fully in control of what he is doing if he were to kill someone he loved for a trivial reason? Overall, the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” kills a man, but he is not guilty due to the reason of insanity. The narrator is not guilty because he has impulsive behavior when he cuts up the old man. He also is not guilty because he cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality, and he cannot control his own morals.

As stated above, he loved the old man. The state of anger, what drove the killing, was the old man’s dead eye. He stated, “ I think it was his eye. Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye with a film over it.” This idea, the very thought of an eye being the object that drove a man to kill is evidence that this man is insane.

The duo kill Brett, find the suitcase and are about to leave until a man hiding inside the bathroom attempts to kill the two. Though at point blank range, the man misses all 6 shots and the pair quickly neutralize him. Jules thinks it is a sign of god that he should stop living 'the life ' (The job of being a professional killer) and quits 'the life ' hoping to maybe travel to Europe or just go with where life takes him, while realizing all the people he killed and all the destruction he lay waste to. (Pulp) This example displays the third trait of heroism because though Jules 's job is to kill people, he eventually realizes that though he collects money and nothing disastrous has happened to him or any of his loved ones, that what he is doing is wrong. He recognizes that he killed countless people and that he presumably left crying families and several other problems other people had to solve.

Based on his actions we can tell that Montresor is full of revenge because he plots to kill his own friend. Fortunato has done many things against Montresor that slowly get to him. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge" (p.1 1-3). Montresor got tired of Fortunato doing him wrong, so he decides that he was going to get back at him. Montresor would make sure that Fortunato never does him wrong again, proving that he is a man full of revenge.

Rainsford is a competitive hunter just like Zaroff so there is a possibility he killed Zaroff because he is stubborn and wanted to win, which would lead him to be guilty and have a more intense punishment. In the end I think even if it was for survival rainsford will have to serve some jail time for his actions. I believe Rainsford should serve some jail time because he did push Zaroff’s body off the window and let the dogs eat his flesh, pushing Zaroff’s body off was unnecessary but the actually murder has its own punishments. Do you think he should be in jail for murdering Zaroff even if it was for his own protection?, keep in mind that Rainsford would be guilty for many things he has done as

This links to the claim because the narrator was so obsessed with the old man 's eye and his focus was on killing the old man that he started becoming mad. So, the thoughts he had for concealing the body so no one would find out was an act of pure madness. This example and analysis shows why the narrator been obsessed with the old man 's eye and how his obsessions made his mind become

Both of the short stories are about revenge, murder and madness. The narrators of both the Tell-Tale Heart and the Cask of Amontillado have very different motives for committing the murder each of them commits. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator is insane and his motive behind killing the old man is that he cannot stand the sight of the old man’s “vulture eye”. He is tempted to close the eye forever, and so he does this by murdering him. Whereas, in The Cask of Amontillado, the reason behind the murder is revenge, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” Additionally, Montressor’s jealousy is another reason because of which he murders Fortunato.

“I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye!

Do you believe the insane should be held responsible for their criminal acts? The narrator in this story murdered a old man. We are figuring out if he is guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity. The narrator is not guilty by reason of insanity because he killed the victim because of his eye which is not sane, he thought that his own guilt was the dead old man 's heartbeat, and he had officers sit where the victim 's corpse lies. The narrator is insane because he wants to kill over a eye.

Authors create suspense in stories by using time,distance,setting,and different thoughts. They also make the danger feel real and they hide what characters are feeling. This story is about a unknown named man who killed an elderly that lives with him because he thinks that the man 's eye is evil. Towards the end of the story it seems like he 's gonna get away with murder because he put the body under the floorboards and sat on it while the cops were there talking to him. Poe builds a lot of suspense towards the end of the book because he leaves the characters feelings out and he leaves us wondering if the narrator will actually kill the man, and then over whether he will be caught.