Anyway, in the Tell-Tale Heart the narrator is truly insane. When you have to repeat to people or keep trying to convince them your not insane, your insane. But the narrator is an evil genius, well at least according to him. He murders the old man without a single visible drop of blood. When the police go around asking about the scream, what gets him to confess to what he has done is his madness. I know a lot of people say that it is not really guilt that gets him to confess but I think guilt may have played a tiny role in his confession. After all he actually liked the old man, it was just his evil eye that bothered the narrator. That is why he hesitated each night. Why it took eight days for the narrator to kill the man. All those other nights the man was asleep, the evil eye nowhere to be seen. On the eighth night, though, the evil eye made an appearance and that’s what drove the narrator to commit murder. For in some cultures the only way to get rid of the evil eye is to destroy it. But then after killing the old man the narrator could no longer see the evil eye. He just saw the dead old man and that’s when a little speck of guilt entered the narrators mind. This speck of guilt and the madness was what drove the narrator to confess.
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