Tell-Tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe. The entire story is a confession of a brutal murder without any rational motive. The narrator repeatedly tries to convince the public has not gone mad even if his actions prove otherwise. For him his nervousness sharpens his senses and allows him to hear things from heaven, earth and hell. The narrator had planned to kill his roommate who had never harmed him and that he had loved dearly because he felt that her pale blue eye tormented him. The narrator states that "her eye resembles that of a vulture." The madman then goes on to explain how when the eye it is upon him his blood turns cold and he must get rid of the eye forever. He sneaks into his roommate's room for seven nights at midnight and shines a beam of light from a lantern over the eye to find it closed. On the eighth night he repeats the same steps to find that this time the eye is open! The roommate senses someone's presence and becomes alarmed. The narrator says that he knew his roommate was scared because he could hear his heartbeat and recognized that feeling of fear. The narrator then attacks the man pushes him to the floor and throws the bed over him and kills him instantly As he does this he revels in himself and what he has done. Moments later the police knock on the door because a neighbor complained about the noise and heard someone screaming. The narrator says the screams came from him, but calmly helps the cops inside to check for themselves. He hears a faint heartbeat. When they find nothing wrong with the scene, they all grab chairs and have a conversation. The longer they sit, the stronger their heart beats......center of card......Works CitedAnderson, Katie. Madness in mental asylums.http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/student/kanderson.htmlFebruary 7, 2010Associated contents. 2010http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/261561/edgar_allen_poe_a_telltaleheart.htmlFebruary 6, 2010Bittner, William. Poe: biography-Boston: little brown and co.1982http://www.users.stargate.net/~zrm/lit/telltale.html7 February 2010“Conscience”. Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary.2010Merriam-Webster online February 7, 2010http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscienceFebruary 7, 2010“enotes.”enotes.com.2010http://www.enotes.com/tell- story -heartJanuary 27, 2010"Houghton Mifflin." Houghton Mifflin Company.2004http://www.medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/mental.comFebruary 7, 2010Womack. Martha, “Tell-Tale Heart.” The decoderhttp://www.poedecoder.com/essays/ttheart/#point7 Feb 2010