In the story, the narrator experience lots of psychological experience that we probably would probably believe that he was insane. The moment the narrator speaks he tells us he isn't crazy, as though he trying to make himself believe he isn't. He then goes onward and talks about the eye, contempating on how to kill the old man, by going in and out of the old man's bedroom for a couple of nights until he finally kills the old man. To me the narrator had different personalities; he was loving and caring towards the old man, but when it came to the old man's eye he was scared, nervous, and had hatred towards the eye. " He had never wrong me. He have never giving me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was the eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of this eye forever" (Poe 37). To me the eye was like him, calling the eye evil was like calling himself evil so to get rid of the eye was maybe him trying to change himself from being evil. In an article written by Wing-chi, he presents us with his explaination of how he interpret the story; "... the link between the "eye" and "I" in terms of projective envisionment: it is the narrator's "evil I" that makes him see the evil eye. In Robinson's words, "Vision becomes insight, the 'Evil Eye' an evil 'I' and the murdered man a victim sacrificed to a self-consitiuted deity" (Wing-chi). The narrator end up killing the old man at the end but the police arrivals puts him in a state of guilt, he starts hearing things and ends up cracking and tells the police that he killed the old man, which ends the story and the narrator insanity.
Cited Sources:
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing 6th Edition. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: Pearson Longman, 2010. Print. 36-40.
Wing-chi Ki, Magdalen. "Ego-Evil And "The Tell-Tale Heart.." Renascence 61.1 (2008): 25-38. Academic Search Complete. Web. 9 Dec. 2011.
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