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Character who gives the reader a very strong sense of him in context to his mental state. For instance, he begins the story inquiringly; How then am I mad? and states, Observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story. The narrator attempts to prove his sanity when the reader has yet not had the opportunity to make any kind of judgment, automatically alerting the reader that something is different in the characters behavior. He also claims that he has powers; I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. From these opening sentences alone we catch a glimpse that the narrator is mentally deranged and suffers from symptoms of anxiety. Edgar Allen Poe gives a clear yet intense sense of psychological unhinge of his narrators character with unfathomable sentence structures that help to establish the psychological drama. This technique is seen throughout the tale to solidify the narrators insanity in the eyes of the audience and increase the dramatic atmosphere that builds during the story. Using first person point of view in The Tell-Tale Heart is significant in that it allows the reader to engage in the thoughts and remarks of the narrator and thus, help us to make a decision on his character. The narrator directly talks to the audience throughout the tale as if they are sitting right in front of him. The opening sentence is sudden and demanding; TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" establishes the rambling voice of the narrator in a very powerful manner. The incoherence of the sentence gets the reader intrigued to read further. By asking a question right at the start effectively gets the reader engaged. With his insistence to prove himself, the reader feels as if the decision is upto them to decide his fate. The narrator recounts the murder to prove his sanity and continually reaches out to the audience during his recount If still you think me mad . . . The relationship between the old man (who was killed) and the narrator is ambiguous, just like every other personal detail normally provided in other stories. This drives the focus to the detail in the plot. The narrator had no obvious reason to kill the old man except for his fear for the old mans fake eye. In fact the narrator had a strong connection with the old man; I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. He does not directly judge the old man as he is always asleep in the tale but the narrators tells of his feelings for the man: for it was not the old man who vexed me but his Evil Eye. Therefore his judgment to kill the old man was not for any action that he took but for his eye. But the narrator does judge himself on his actions. He thinks of himself as clever, the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body, and praises himself with his skills; you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily. Overall, the role of the narrator was to tell a story in the form of a recount but in a twisted way. The psychological disorder of the narrator allows the reader to understand what goes through the mind of those mentally disabled in society today. The narrator, being the main character, .