Tell-Tale Heart Analytical Essay

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“Psychopaths have a feeling of grandiose perception. They believe that they are very smarter and powerful. (psytreasure.com)” If you were a psychopath, would you be able to recognize your patterns? The patterns discussed are ones of the narrator from the short story “The Tell Tale Heart”. The narrator from this story is a insane because he stalked the old man during the middle of the night in his room for eight days, he murdered and dismembered the old man's body, and he developed extreme paranoia and growing anxiety of the fear that the officers would hear the beating of the deceased man's heart, though his heart was never beating in reality. The narrator of "The Tell Tale Heart" went into the old man's room for eight days at midnight and observed him while he slept. For the narrator sees this as a regular step to complete when planning to take the life from a person, but in actuality no one would over-analyze the process of what he is performing. An ordinary assassin would have executed the elderly man on the first night, but the narrator chooses to stalk his prey before he kills. "And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it...I moved it slowly- very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep (Poe, page …show more content…
However, remarking the author's point of view, that's not the case. After the narrator takes the soul of the poor aged man, he dismembers his body. No sane human being would go through the trouble of slicing off all of the limbs of their victim. As soon as the narrator is finished, he places the parts of the carcass underneath the floor of the elderly man’s home. "I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three plates from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings.(Poe, Page 206)". The narrator is losing his sanity. This is a psychotic action in which regular people would not contribute
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