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The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe!

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  A perfect hair-raising Halloween-time experience! Head without a heart, is monstrous, Head with a heart in place, works wonders! Don’t we stumble upon folks, who appear standoffish and selfish, and others overtly emotional? It is infrequent to encounter the ones with a correct amalgamation of both head and heart. Life turns into a beautiful song, only when both the head and the heart work in tandem!   For me, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, is a macabre story, eliciting the above theme of the importance of the intertwinement and inexplicability of head and heart! It is a commentary on rationality of a human with a head but no heart, juxtaposing the ramifications of presence and absence of heart! It is a story about psychological issues, in a person with a diseased mind! The unnamed narrator, throughout the story keeps proclaiming that he isn’t mad, but in actuality his mind is diseased. This story, is a study on human psychology (not alone about a madman, but a self-not...