Why do you think this?
2007-01-23 02:27:42 · 15 answers · asked by Paqy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I think that consumed by a guilty consious and the fear of his dark deed being discovered might have driven him insane.
2007-01-23 02:32:08 · answer #1 · answered by tiger b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the Narrator was Edgar Allen Poe. The story probably came to him in one of his paranoid alcoholic schizophrenic dreams.
It wouldn't be too far fetched for this to be true, as many writers get up from dreams and write them down for later use. That on top of the fact that the Narrator in "The Tell Tale Heart" is clearly paranoid and delusional to a haunted extent and a good writer. It has to be Edgar!
2007-01-23 02:38:43 · answer #2 · answered by Rackjack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a wonderful read! And Edger Allen Poe was nor physco, he was odd yes but not physco. The story is all about what you mind can make us do as humans. He is determined to kill this man. And once he does and hides him under the floor boards he can't control the guilt enough 2 sit and have a coversation w/ police. Guilt is a very powerful thing and if you read much of Poes work you'll relize that most is about things that eat at one mind. He was a very gifted man, no matter how odd!
2007-01-23 03:01:02 · answer #3 · answered by LRSMAR 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allan Poe was a genius that instead of writing horror tales based on common fears started to explore the fears and angers that only the human psyche could bring to reality. There's no more powerful tool to create scary situations that "have to be fronted" than our brain. He was an alcoholist but not in the way we think today, when he was a baby his nanny used to made him faint using a cloth wet with gin or rhum just to force his sleep or to avoid him to listen to his parents quarreling. So when he grew up it was enough a small glass of gin to make him fly in a limbo made of fears and anguish.. luckily he was so smart and analytic that he was able to select and create artistic writings with these nightmares. If you read more of his works you will be astonished about his writing technique and his ability to give you the creeps with such simple human elements that our everyday-graphic-violence has almost totally annihilated.
2007-01-23 02:50:08 · answer #4 · answered by AlienXS 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe was an alcoholic. He may have seen pink elephants at times from DTs.Over time alcoholics can develop a form of dementia called Korsakov's psychosis.
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/Korsakov's%20psychosis
2007-01-23 02:33:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Edgar Allen Poe had a deep seated fear of being buried alive, so yes, he was a bit nuts.
2007-01-23 02:37:08 · answer #6 · answered by pinduck85 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe was schizophrenic
2007-01-23 02:32:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
actually he was so full of fear and guilt his conscious finally got to him...psycho...i don't know. some murders are not psycho they just act in the heat of passion like this guy did. he may have been a little nuts though.
2007-01-23 02:36:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he is. He was definatly nuts in the beginning but after he killed the guy he really went psyco.
2007-01-23 07:39:52 · answer #9 · answered by cheery 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would certainly have to be wrong in the head to kill a man because you didn't like his eyes.
2007-01-23 02:37:52 · answer #10 · answered by Robin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋