Theme Of Guilt In The Tell Tale Heart

Guilt, how do people deal with it? When people feel guilty, do they run and hide, apologize, get angry or just bury it deep down. Everyone at some point in their life feels guilty, it is a natural feeling that God put in people so that they may recognize when they do something wrong. Guilt is when a person believes or realizes that he or she has violated his or her own standard or moral conduct and feels responsible for that violation.

In "The Tell Tale Heart" the main character murdered his neighbor because he believed that his neighbor had a vulture eye, and it drove him mad. After murdering his neighbor, he cleverly hid the body under his floorboards believing that no one would ever know. Shortly after burying the body, the police came banging at the door, they told him that his neighbors had heard a shriek and asked them to investigate. The main character welcomed them in and bade them to search well. He told them that the old man was absent in country, and, after searching the house, the main character brought out chairs for them to sit. While talking with them, he felt himself grow
When the grandmother comes to visit, Constancias parents beg her to behave and to be nice to her grandmother because she does not have many years left to live. During the grandmother's visit, the parents asked her to take her grandmother to church, Constancia did not want to do it. Her parents told her is she wanted to go to the mall with her friends she would take her grandmother to church. The following morning Constancia took her grandmother to church, embarrassed all the way. At the church her grandmother got lost and she chose to ignore her and not help her back to her seat. When Constancia got home, her grandmother told her parents what happened and that she felt like a zero. Constancia went to her room and felt guilty over her treatment of her old