Insanity has been recognized throughout the ages. In the short store “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe there is a man who could be or could not be insane.
People are insane or crazy if they are danger to others and themselves. In the short story the man/narrator is obviously insane because he is a danger to the man with the “vulture” like eye because he kills him. Any man who kills another man because of their eye obviously has something wrong with them.
Another reason this man is crazy is he takes pleasure in watching the old man sleep. Every night at midnight he watches the old man sleep for hours, but one night he makes too much noise opening a door and the old man awakes. The narrator stands silently for hours while the old man waits for his next move. A light shines upon the old man’s “vulture” eye and the crazy narrator must kill him, and he does.
A way I can connect to this is I can remember reading about the mafia leader named Vincent Gigante. For years he pretended to be crazy, there was be sightings of him scrambling around outside in his pajama’s mumbling stuff to himself. Video footage shows Gigante to be in complete control of himself.
This short story reminds me of Peter Pan a little bit because Peter Pan watches Wendy, Michael, and John while they’re sleeping. He watches them because he wants to take them to Neverland with him. So they will not grow up.
Obviously the narrator is crazy. He is crazy because the definition of crazy applies to what he does, create danger.
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