The tell tale heart
Characters
Quotes
“Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in
the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?”
quote
“I think it was his 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 the eye for ever.”
theme
He, time and again, denies the fact that he suffers from mental illness but his
awkward actions prove that he suffers from some psychological problem. He is
obsessed with killing the old man for no apparent reason and scrutinizes him for
seven successive nights. The narrator, being paranoiac, kills the old man out of
fear but that is not an acceptable reason.