The man had said, “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!
“Why will you say that I am mad?” In the short story, “Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe describes a man who murdered an old man. The main character describes himself as an acute killer who is not mad even though he has a disease. He claims that the reason why he murdered the old man was because of his “eye like a vulture”. The main character takes serious precaution and dissimulation. After what precedent, he went to the old man’s house everyday for a week just as midnight.
For instance, “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.”(Poe, 1843) This declares that the narrator made the decision, in advance, to kill the innocent old man, proving he committed first degree murder. Not only did he state that he wanted to murder the old man, he also affirmed that “every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it.”(Poe, 1843) Despite having entered the victim’s room for 8 nights and planning the kill, the murderer did not plan the exact moment he would strike him until the old man opened his eye.”It was open-wide,wide open-and I grew more furious as I gazed upon it”(Poe,1843). In that moment, the narrator decided how he would murder the old man without it being schemed. However, while he had not predetermined his method of attack, he did know where he would hide the old man’s body after the event. For those reasons, the murder would be considered ‘first degree’.
Then, carefully, I lifted the cloth, just a little, so that a single, thin, small light fell across that eye. For seven nights I did this, seven long nights, every night at midnight. Always the eye was closed, so it was impossible for me to do the work. For it was not the old man I felt I had to kill; it was the eye, his Evil Eye” (65). The motive for killing the old man may be questionable, but the fact that the narrator refrained from killing the old man in his sleep during those seven nights shows how capable he was at controlling his behavior.
Because he killed an innocent man who never wronged him but due to his eye he took his life. Don’t let this man get away with murder. Thank You, Your
In the story, ”The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe, the reader learns about how a man gets insane because of the old man’s blue pale eye. First, the narrator claims not to be a killer but he wants to kill the old man. Next, at midnight he kills the old man and dismembers the body then hides It underground. Then, the officers came because neighbors reported shrieking so the narrator welcomes them in but he confesses he killed the old man because the narrator was hearing the old man’s heart beating louder and louder. Although you may disagree, I say he was insane for killing the old man.
To begin, the narrator should be sentenced to life in prison since the murder was premeditated. For instance, “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.”(Poe, 1843) This declares that the narrator made the decision, in advance, to kill the innocent old man, proving he committed first degree murder. Not only did he state that he wanted to murder the old man, he also affirmed that “every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it.”(Poe, 1843) Despite having entered the victim’s room for 8 nights and planning the kill, the murderer did not plan the exact moment he would strike him until the old man opened his eye.”It was open-wide,wide open-and I grew more furious as I gazed upon it”(Poe,1843). In that moment, the narrator decided how he would murder the old man without it being schemed. However, while he had not predetermined his method of attack he did know where he would hide the old man’s body after the event.
As the story progresses, the narrator leads the reader throughout his journey, which ends with him finally killing the man. For this reason, the murderer should be sentenced to psychiatric treatment and twenty years of prison, since he acted exactly like a madman (hearing noises and sounds that didn’t exist), and he actually made a plan to go through with the murder. One of the themes that is consistent throughout this story is the idea of mental illness. The main character shows signs of being mentally ill as he constantly makes it clear that his sole reason for wanting to kill the old man is his eye (as he mentions in the text, he “grew furious as he gazed upon it” (Poe, 1843)). Sometimes paranoia causes you to act in certain ways, making you take rash decisions.
Later on, this man finds a new cat and tries to kill it but his wife gets in the way and he kills her by accident, he tries hiding the bodies but also gets caught. First, in the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allen Poe uses Narrator actions to make the mood of his story frightful. An example of this is when the Narrator of the story kills the innocent Old man and hides his body under the wood planks of the Old man 's house. “I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him… I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.”(pg.
It is a proven fact that every time an execution happens, a minimum of 3 innocent people are tried and killed for the crime before the actual killer is even caught. The idea that so many civilians could die for something they had no part in is sad, as that is basically sacrificing a specific amount of good people just to kill one murderer. Innocent people can be convicted for different reasons, but a big one is when they receive a bad attorney. According to Martin Yant, author of the book Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted, states “Larry Hicks was almost executed for a murder he didn’t commit because he has a lazy court-appointed attorney who didn’t even bother to appeal his conviction” (12). An innocent person would have been killed for something that was the court’s fault.