Tell Tale Heart Guilt
Main characters are the narrator who is mentally ill and an old man who has a “vulture” eye. The narrator claims he loves the old man because the old man never did him an wrong.(Poe 1). However, the narrator is disturbed by the old man’s “vulture” eye. Then he ends up being obsessed with the old man’s “vulture” eye and wanting to get rid of it.(Poe 1) The narrator begins to hear a heartbeat (the old man’s heartbeat). This heartbeat leads the narrator to become more mad and ends up confessing his crime to the police.(Poe 5) In reality, “The Tell-Tale Heart” represents that guilt can cause people to confess their darkest crimes. The story suggests that if someone commits a crime, they must face the consequences no matter how mentally ill they are.
To begin, whether or not the narrator had a mental condition does not mean murder is an excusable crime; he still has to face the consequences for committing murder. In his point of view he is trying to cope with his mental condition but in reality he wasn’t. …show more content…
While this may be true, it fails to account for the lesson readers learn from the narrator’s crime that the criminal must face the consequences no matter how mentally ill they are because when criminals learn their lesson they realize they’re guilty for what they have done. In addition to the narrator did the right thing by confessing to the police because he didn’t lie to the police and just because he confessed doesn’t mean he’s going get away with murder he’s still guilty. Also every individual has a different point of view because in “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator’s point of view he thought the old man’s eye was evil and in the old man’s point of view he thinks nothing wrong with his eye. As the narrator got obsessed over the old man’s eye he thought that killing him would make his eye stop bothering him. Still at first the narrator thought that he was coping with his mental condition but he really
To begin, whether or not the narrator had a mental condition does not mean murder is an excusable crime; he still has to face the consequences for committing murder. In his point of view he is trying to cope with his mental condition but in reality he wasn’t. …show more content…
While this may be true, it fails to account for the lesson readers learn from the narrator’s crime that the criminal must face the consequences no matter how mentally ill they are because when criminals learn their lesson they realize they’re guilty for what they have done. In addition to the narrator did the right thing by confessing to the police because he didn’t lie to the police and just because he confessed doesn’t mean he’s going get away with murder he’s still guilty. Also every individual has a different point of view because in “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator’s point of view he thought the old man’s eye was evil and in the old man’s point of view he thinks nothing wrong with his eye. As the narrator got obsessed over the old man’s eye he thought that killing him would make his eye stop bothering him. Still at first the narrator thought that he was coping with his mental condition but he really