The Tell-Tale Heart
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The Tell-Tale Heart
The speaker has been ill, he refuses to listen to the others and believe that he has lost control of his mind, and he also believes that killing the old man was not mad; insane. The speaker has lost control of his mind before he sees the old man’s mysterious “vulture” eye, and after he does it totally sets him off and leads him to a series of bad actions. Its not hard for him to make these bad decisions with this unstable mindset, feeling/looking like a crazy person to himself and others, and has been ill. So when this “vulture” eye looks down his soul, he snaps into a sneaky murderer so the old man wouldn’t kill him before he could kill him first, and all of these demons and his unstable mindset leads him to this murder .
The speaker second guesses his decisions, he doesn’t know if 90% of the stuff he is doing is right or wrong, he doesn’t even know for sure if the old man or the evil eye is out to get him, there’s already guilt there but there’s also those feelings and demons leading him to the murder, So this all just a beg mess in the speakers head. The speaker says he did not hate the old man , the old man has never hurt the speaker, the speaker did not want his money, so what was driving the speaker to such madness to kill the old man other than a weird looking eyeball? The speaker says as the sound of the old mans heart beat grew , so did his anger, something greater than anger, something painful. What was he talking about?
The speaker stands statue still outside of the old mans room in rage, complete shock in fear, and guilt. He hits the kill switch , kills the old man, and hides the evidence. Nothing changes tho, things just get worse. The speaker doesnt feel happy, like what he did as the right thing, the heart beat the speaker was hearing did not go away it gets louder, neither the demons or the guilt goes away, and the police showed up