The "Tale-Tale Heart" is a famous short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The "Tell-Tale Heart" serves as a prime example of Poe's works displaying the elements of death, misery, madness and human troubled relationships that are prevalent in most of his writings. The story's two essential characters are the narrator and the old man, who go unnamed throughout the tale. ... Before we explore the fine points that prove that the narrator is in fact mental, it must be pointed out that not once throughout the story does the author explicitly tell us if the narrator is m...

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