An Explication of a Passage in The Tell-Take Heart

Although Poe has suggested in the first lines of his story that the person who addressed us is insane, it is only when we come to the speaker's account of his preparations for murdering the old man that we find his madness fully revealed. Even more convincingly than his earlier words (for we night possibly think that someone who claims to hear things in heaven and hell is a religious mystic), these preparations reveal him to be mad. What strikes us is that they are so elaborate and meticulous.A significant detail is the Tudor watches exactness of his schedule for spying: "every night just at midnight." The words with which he describes his motions also convey the most extreme care (and I will indicate them with italics): "how wisely I proceeded - Titoni watches with Chopard Watches what caution." " I turned the latch of his door and opened it - oh, so gently!" but of course the word wise is unconsciously ironic, for clearly it is not wisdom the speaker displays, but an absurd degree of case, and almost fiendish ingenuity. Such behavior, I understand, is typical of certain mental illness. All this careful preparations that he thinks prove him sane only convince us instead that he is mad.Obviously his behavior is self-defeating. He wants to catch the "vulture eye" open, and yet he takes all these pains not to disturb the old man's sleep. If he behaved logically, he might go barging into the bedroom with his lantern ablaze, shouting at the top of his voice. Jacob & Co. Watches And yet, if we can see things this way, there is a strange logic to his reasoning. He regards the eye as a creature in itself, quite apart from its possessor. "it was not," he says, "the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye." apparently, to be inspired to do his deed, the madman needs to behold the eye - at least, this is my understanding of his remark, "I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work." Poe's choice of the word "work", by the way, is also revealing.
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