Can someone find me an online article on the Tell-Tale Heart?
In Edgar Allen Poe’s, “A Tell-Tale Heart,” the main character suffers from a mental illness of which he is fully aware. Based on the symptoms he describes ranging from hallucinations and anxiety attacks, to the voices in his mind, this madman could be classified by psychologists as paranoid schizophrenic. Although he never considers himself mad, his mind is consumed with thoughts of his master’s “evil eye” tormenting him in silent agony. It becomes clear to the reader that this madman cannot judge reality from fantasy. He describes his madness and neglects to identify the disease as an obsession with a blind eye that can neither see him nor physically cause him harm. The character is described as the servant of an old man with an ” eye like a vulture-a pale blue, with a film over it…”(pg.1572) Here, the reader assumes the man to be blind in that eye and vulnerable to the madman who becomes obsessed with the thought of ridding himself of it. ” Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran co
