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The narrator from The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is the most

removed from reality because he keeps hearing voices in his head. An


example is Was it possible they heard not? Almighty God! --no, no! They
heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my
horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this
agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those
hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now
--again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! That quote shows that he is
talking to himself, which tends to be a sign of craziness.
Some people think that the narrator from The Black Cat is more
removed from reality because he killed his wife. That is not true because the
narrator in The Tell Tale Heart
The narrator from the Tell Tale Heart is the most removed from reality
because he has voices in his head and the narrator from the Black Cat only
cut his cats eye out. This shows that he is crazier than the narrator from
The Black Cat The narrator from The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is
the most removed from reality because he keeps hearing voices in his head.

Works Cited

Poe, Edgar Allen. The Black Cat. Comp. Robert Giordano. N.p.:
n.p., n.d.Poestories.com. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.
<http://poestories.com/read/blackcat>.

Poe, Edgar Allen. The Tell Tale Heart. Comp. Robert Giordano. N.p.:
n.p., n.d. Poestories.com. Web. 20 Oct. 2015.
<http://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart>.

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