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A 5 page paper which examines the events as they relate to the narrator in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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story of a man who is clearly insane, or mad, and yet a man who insists that he is anything but mad. This man is the narrator of the story
and so his weaknesses are narrated by himself, although he does not perceive them as weaknesses. The following paper examines how the narrators weaknesses are related through the events.
Narrator in Poes The Tell-Tale Heart In the very beginning of the story the narrator tells the reader things that he believes to be strengths but are, in fact,
weaknesses. He states, "TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" (Poe). The use of capital letters for
the first work, the use of "very" twice, and then the subtle refusal to believe he is mad clearly presents the reader with the narrators weakness. He is too argumentative,
from the very beginning, as he tells the reader he is NOT mad. This immediately puts doubt in the readers head about the narrators sanity. The next sentence is
"The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them" which clearly illustrates that this man is suffering from a disease. One could well argue that nervousness is not
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is further indication of his weakness of not being able
to truly see that he is mad. It should perhaps be noted that it is a long held belief that people who are insane do not question their sanity
but rather insist they are not insane. People how think they are insane are often not insane for they have their rational wits about them enough to examine the possibility.
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