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This 4 page paper examines Edgar Allan Poe's classic story "The Tell Tale Heart." It argues that the narrator is in the grip of obsession that leads him to kill. It also argues that the same can be said of Willard in the film "Apocalypse Now." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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really about the evils of obsession. Discussion The story is simple: a young man kills his employer, an old man with a "filmy eye" that the youth has convinced
himself is an "evil eye." The murderer, who narrates the story, explains his meticulous preparations and then describes the murder in detail-including how he dismembered the body and buried it
under the floorboards (Poe, 1843). When the police come, the murderer is at first calm and collected, then becomes increasingly agitated. Finally, the imaginary heartbeat pounding in his ears, he
shrieks his confession. Clearly, the murderer is insane; we know this from the first line: "TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you
say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them" (Poe, 1843). But even so, he might not have acted on his fears if
he had not become obsessed with the deformity. He admits the obsession, but unfortunately he is unequipped to recognize it for what it is. He says that its impossible to
say how he first got the idea of killing the old man, but once it had come to him "it haunted me day and night" (Poe, 1843). He admits that
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. Passion there was
none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire" (Poe, 1843). The only reason for
his crime was that terrible eye: "He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran
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