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Tell Tale Heart Murder
The “Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe easily shows the narrator as a murderer. In this story, murder one is present through the death of the old man who is brutally killed. As an illustration, murder one is a planned murder committed willingly. Seemingly the narrator who commits a felony also confesses incessantly in the story. He does this by believing that the old mans eye is cursed making him want to get rid of it. In the beginning, the narrator states that “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe 1). The old mans eye which is provingly creepy causes the narrator to plan the murder. The murder is voluntary committed due to the old mans eye. This is shown through the narrators detailed

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