Is Edgar Allan Poe Insane Or Insane

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Edgar Allan Poe wst like any other person, there were many tragic things that happened to him throughout his life. Mr. Poe wrote many poems and short stories that were mainly dark because of what happened in his life. We are reading one of his stories called “The Tell-Tale Heart”, this short story is dark and you might say a little odd. In his short story the narrator tries to convince the audience that he isn’t mad or insane, but i think the quite opposite of what he says. The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is insane because he killed an old man because of his eye, he stalked the man for seven days, and he hid the remains of the man’s body under his house.
The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was insane because he murdered a man because

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