In trying to convince the reader that he is not a madman, the narrator reveals very quickly that he is criminally insane. In the story, the narrator seems deranged in the way he boasts about his audacity to go into the old man’s room unnoticed. He believes it is very brave of him to do what he has done. He states, “Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers – my sagacity. I would scarcely contain my feeling of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts”(Poe, 4). Another reason for seeing the narrator as a madman is the simple fact that sane people do not decapitate human bodies. The narrator smo

Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” offers an interesting and frightening look into the mind of a madman. But it also suggests that no matter how much people try to hide the part of themselves that they do not want to share with others, they cannot hide it forever. Like the narrator in the story, the tell-tale heart that reveals us is buried in what we have done.

thers the old man with a bed mattress, cuts off his head, arms and legs, and deposits the body parts under three floor planks. “If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body,” the narrator states. He is proud of an accomplishment that would make sane people sick to their stomachs.

While the narrator wants us to believe that he is intelligent and shrewd, his actions might seem almost foolish if not for his hideous crime. The narrator is in awe of his own patience and intelligence when he sneaks in the old man’s room to watch him while he sleeps. “Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I move slowly – very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head withi

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