The Underlying Madness in Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart The TellTale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe begins with a man attempting to prove his sanity. In all actuality this attempt reveals his madness: “ True! Nervous, very very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”(Poe 132) This story shows Poe’s underlying desires to kill, his true madness, and thoughts of revenge. To understand the true …showed first 75 words of 1582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1582 total…that revealed his true thoughts, wishes, and dreams including The Tell Tale Heart. Works Cited Bloom, Harold ed. Classic Horror Writers. New York, Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994 Gallery Books. The 1,000 page Treasury of Children’s Stories. New York, New York. Gallery Books, 1987 Howard William L. ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poe’s Tales. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1971 Phillps, Mary E. Edgar Allan Poe The Man. Chicago. Philadephia. Toronto: The John C. Winston CO, 1962