Surely He Is Not Mad:
My Comments on "The Tell-Tale Heart"
I think the narrator is not a mad person. The reason why I am saying this is that
the
narrator
has
a
very
clear
mind.
We
can
see
it
from
the
plan
he'd
made
to
murder the old man. A mad person couldn't be so meticulous and come up with
such a detailed plan. In my opinion, this plan is so perfect because the narrator
managed to kill the old man ultimately and if he didn't confess his crime out loud,
the police won't even suspect him. What's more, the narrator calmly dismembered
the old man and put his body under the floor. Is a mad person able to do that?
As for the reason why the narrator has to kill the old man, I guess it has a great
deal to do with his self-attempt. This inferiority complex blinds him. Maybe the
narrator was a servant of the old man . The old man treated him well and politely.
But the narrator is so self-abased that he/she took it as some kind of disdain. The
narrator might think that the old man is a hypocrite. In his/her opinion , the old
man seemed to be very kind , but he despise him/her deep inside, which pisses
him/her off.
At the beginning of the passage, the narrator once said that 'The disease had
sharpened my sense', but he actually denied that he's mad. In my opinion , this is
some
kind
of
indication.
For
instance,
in
real
life
,
we
know
that
drunk
people
usually claim that they are sober. Ok, some of them are telling the truth but most
aren't.
Mad
people
usually
don't
admit
they
are
crazy
either.
Assume
that
you