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    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and discusses whether the narrator can be trusted due to signs he may have been suffering from schizophrenia or was simply a sociopath. It explores possibilities such as the narrator hearing and seeing imaginary things due to schizophrenia or the old man's murder being a complete fabrication invented in the narrator's mind. Ultimately it determines Poe conveyed the narrator was mad through his unreliable reasoning and confessions.

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    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and discusses whether the narrator can be trusted due to signs he may have been suffering from schizophrenia or was simply a sociopath. It explores possibilities such as the narrator hearing and seeing imaginary things due to schizophrenia or the old man's murder being a complete fabrication invented in the narrator's mind. Ultimately it determines Poe conveyed the narrator was mad through his unreliable reasoning and confessions.

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    The document analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" and discusses whether the narrator can be trusted due to signs he may have been suffering from schizophrenia or was simply a sociopath. It explores possibilities such as the narrator hearing and seeing imaginary things due to schizophrenia or the old man's murder being a complete fabrication invented in the narrator's mind. Ultimately it determines Poe conveyed the narrator was mad through his unreliable reasoning and confessions.

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    TheTellTaleHeartAnalysis

    Iheardallthingsintheheavenandintheearth,Iheardmanythingsinhell.How,then,
    amImad?Howcanyoutrustamanthatisntsureabouthimselfbeing?EdgarAllanPoemade
    itevidentthatthenarratorwasasociopathicman.Schizophreniaisthediseaseinwhichtheold
    manwassufferingfromthatleadhimtomaketheverdictshehadmade.Thiswasaseverely
    chronicdisease,whichpermittedhimtohearandseethingsthatotherscouldnt,hewastorn
    betweenrealityandimaginary.Thisstorycouldallbemakebelievebecauseitsfromhis
    outlookontheoldmanwiththevultureeye.Alltheseeventsthatoccurredcouldallbefalse
    informationheisretelling.Theauthormadeitseemhewasmadbecausehisaccusationsdidnt
    matchupwithrealitysuchascuttingupaman'sbodyandputtingitunderneaththeflooring.
    Thenarratorhimselfconfessedthathewashearingthingsfromheavenandhell.Hisreasoning
    wasnotconsiderablebecausehehadnothingagainsthim.Itcouldbeapossibilitythattheman
    couldwasnotawareofthevultureeyeandtookthetookthelifeofaninnocentoldmanwith
    noattentiontodoanyharm.Inotherreasoningcouldbetheundistinguishedimaginationofthe
    oldman.Thus,schizophreniahadleftamarkonthestorybeingtoldfromthenarratormindand
    thoughts.EdgarAllanPoeconveyedthesensehewasmad.

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