Perceived Paranoia Edgar Allen Poe’s fevered imagination brought him to great heights of creativity and low depths of paranoic despair. Although he produced a relatively small volume of work, he virtually invented the horror and gothic genres and his literary legacy lives to this day. In the story of the “Tell Tale Heart,” a mans madness is prtryed in a manner that makes you think question his motives. The main character of the story, …showed first 75 words of 527 total…

…showed last 75 words of 527 total…out, he tries to justify his madness. His reasoning for wanting the old man dead is without motive. He tells us, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.”(303) The narrator was coming to the realization that he had logical reason for the murder of the old man. The truth of the matter is that he knows that he cannot