Inocent/The tell tale heart
...so that he is schizophrenic. “It was his eye!” the narrator assures. The eye of an old man makes him nervous, as if the eye itself is staring at him in an annoying way. The eye of the old man becomes his obsession, and the madman decides to go to the old man’s room in order to get rid of the evil eye. As a result of all these evidences, there is in fact convincing proofs that this man is not sane. Second, this man, in his insanity, needs to eliminate or exterminate the evil eye because he doesn’t feel comfortable with that eye watching him as these lines say, “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”. There isn’t other way for this madman to get rid of that eye, but to kill the poor old man in order to be calmed again. His only way to kill the old man and so to get rid of the eye, is to go to the old man’s room at night. He goes cunningly and quietly in order to be unnoticed by the old man as these lines say, “ Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly -very very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep”. However, he goes for seven night, and nothing happens because the evil eyes is always closed at night. Upon the eight day, at night, he is able to see the evil eye open. Not only he is forcing himself to kill the old man because of the eye but also because of the heart beat of the old man as these lines say, “ Yet for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst”. The eye and the heartbeat are too much for this madma...