The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Analysis

The short story started off with the narrator describing himself as insane and crazy. He lived with a disease that sharpened his senses. The story covered over a period of about eight days with most of the action occurring during nighttime. According to the story, he lives with an old man and absolutely get annoyed by his vulture-like eye. The narrator would stalk the old man every night and spy over his bed for seven nights painstakingly. Finally, during the eighth night when the old man was scared awake by the noise the narrator made, the narrator decided to murder him and dismembered the corpse. He later hid the body parts in the floor boards and it haunted him when three officers sat in front of him. Due to the continuous irritating heartbeat noise, the narrator screamed out and admitted that he killed the old man.
From my interpretation, I believed that the narrator murdered the old man from fear. The fear is represented by the old man's eye, and the pale-blue eye is described with a vulture resemblance. There is something in the eye that evoked the narrator's dark side and drove him to madness towards the end of the story. His guilt and memories of the old man most likely haunted the narrator and made him hear the heartbeat of the old man's remains from the floors. He could no longer conceal what he did in front of officers even though they did not suspect anything. Human nature is balanced between good and evil and sometimes, there are reasons that create for the dark side to surface. The irrational fear of the old man's vulture eye evoked the narrator's dark side and led him to murder the old man. On the eighth night, the narrator only killed the old man with his eyes open and it was irritating the narrator. He did not carry out his murder on the seven nights before because of the reason that the old man was sleeping and his eyes were not revealed in sleep. In fear, people are willing to do anything and they will get consumed by this fear to carry out horrible acts. This fear had turned the narrator into a victim of madness and crime.