Bernard Charles
Ms. Winkler
English 1002

A Pale Blue Eye

I never thought in my wildest dreams that someone would be so anxious to dismantle an old man because of his blue eyes, especially when the old man never did any wrongdoing to anyone. Do not ever underestimate the power of darkness because you could be the next one in line?

The Tell Tale Heart is a well-known demoniac story by Edgar Allan Poe, where the devil played a big role by inspiring the narrator to engage in such devilish acts. First, the devil injected the idea into the narrator’s brain and made him believe there was only one way out: to kill the old man. The narrator said,” it hunted me day and night,” but it is unclear what relationship was between the old man and the narrator. May be the old man could be a father figure, but it is unknown in the story. Moreover, the narrator became very creepy by his own insanity. The narrator stated,” he had never wronged me, and he never insulted me,” so would he destroy the old man when he had never done anything unjust to him? The power of darkness kept whispering to the narrator to continue on his long journey. The old man never paid any attention to the narrator because it seemed that there was an overwhelming amount of trust between the two. Otherwise, the old man would have felt his death was coming.

The narrator’s strategy seemed to work very well with the old man because he treated the old man nicely during the day and at night he plotted to kill him. He admitted,” object there was none,” Yes, the blue eyes was the main reason that the narrator planned carefully for more than a week to take the old man’s life away. Poor old man never had a clue that his life was in jeopardy when the narrator watched every move he made at night, even when the old man was unable to sleep he never suspected