What is the disease that narrator claims he has? The disease that brought the narrator to commit a crime is an excess of emotion over intelligence. Poe relates how the narrator believes the validity of the previous statement: “…very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my sense—not destroyed—not dulled them…”(36). The disease in this is obviously a severe case of emotions, nervousness among them. He is mad, very mad, for he cannot control his own sense toward his own action. The murder of the old man is motiveless, and unconnected with passion or profit. He kills with the only sense that he does not have to endure the haunting of the Evil Eye

The beating sound of the old man’s heart grew louder and louder and it condemns the madman. But is it the old man heart that beat? The narrator enters the room and hears the old man’s heart beating louder and louder that he thought “it must burst” (38). His own fear and madness becomes uncontrollable when he thought the heartbeat “would be heard by a neighbor”(38). And toward the end after performing his duty of murdering the victim, the madman hears the heart of the old man continue to beat under the floor. Is it the old man heartbeat or it is just the pounding in his ears? The explanation for the heartbeat is that it is all in the madman’s head, or maybe is merely his own imagination. “Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has swelled up from my own bosom” (37). The beat of nervousness is hammering under his chest when he tries to commit the crime is heard by the madman clearly. It is possible that the beating of the old man “hideous heart”(39) is heard by the madman is his own heartbeat as well. It’s more logical to say the beating is his own than to say the heart of a dead man that has been cut into three can still beat. Besides, wouldn’t the police men hear the old man heart’s beat too? And if they did, wouldn’t they draw their guns on the madman instead of sitting on their seats chatting gaily. Another explanation for the heartbeat is that it comes from a work of imagination. The narrator doesn’t hear the heartbeat of the man because it’s his mind that creates the sounds.

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Evil Eye, Tell-Tale Heart”, Evil Eye”36, , “evil eye”, seven nights creeps, explanation heartbeat, louder louder, man’s heart, madness control, world imagination, nights creeps, commit crime, heartbeat it’s, seven nights,