450 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The History of Literature
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The Long Fellow Poem - The Heart of the Story
The most common diagnosis of the narrator is schizophrenia. Society depends on sanity, but insanity exists as does evil. And guilt has its icy fingers wrapped around our mind, squeezing us sometimes. The dark, trembling heart of this story is the idea that we live on a knife edge.
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