Tell Tale Heart Analysis

The Tell Tale Heart is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most renounced and mist popular pieces. The story has been interpreted in numerous ways through out history and the details of the story are still debated today. One of the main themes in the story, sanity versus insanity, is examined and intensified with Poe's lack of detail and use of many words. It shows the unnamed murder's true mental deterioration and paranoia. Without detail, it shows the murder's true obsession with only specific details featured in the story including the old man's supposed evil eye, the ever pounding heart beat coming from under the floor where the remains of the dead body are hidden, and the murder's many claims to his own sanity. Is Poe using The Tell Tale Heart to illustrate his own insanity and his wanting to only be a nervous person. After all he did commit suicide resulting from his dark and feisty universe. Poe seems to want to catch the murder in his evil plot possible in the same way he wants to catch the evil that can be lying inside of him wanting to commit the same insane acts as the murder in the Tell Tale Heart.