Control or Insanity in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". Poe weld's the full moon at midnight, like a beacon enlightening the truth that lies in the knowledge that madness is created by ones own inability to handle ones reality. When we try to define human nature, we must consider the balance of both good and evil. Many times these qualities exist simultaneously and maintain a balance, but sometimes this stability is lost and the …showed first 75 words of 737 total…

…showed last 75 words of 737 total…reader never gets a chance to see if the murderer is mad, or had been driven to that element, because of the eye. This whole tale evolved around the eye. A seeming miniscule part of the body, but apparently enough to drive him deranged. Was the narrator always this unstable or is this a new element? If Poe really did want the reader to achieve satisfaction, then the murder would not be an exasperated lunatic.