E.A._Poe’s_Insights_On_Insanity_And_The_Workings_Of_The_Huma

E.A. Poe’s Insights On Insanity And The Workings Of The Human Psyche There is one thread that all would agree binds many of Poe’s works together . . . Murder and the insanity associated with it. Where the workings of the human mind are concerned, Poe puts to paper what many cannot even imagine. This is especially evident in his short stories such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” in which the common themes are murder, insanity, and darkness. We all wonder what goes on in the mind of a person driven so far over the brink of human sanity that they would actually murder another person. We wonder what could drive one human being to want to kill another. In pondering the issues above, we often set ourselves aside in thinking that only the obviously and criminally insane are capable of doing such a deed and no seemingly normal person would ever commit such a heinous act, especially not anyone near and dear to us, but what if it were to happen' What if someone close to us were to wish us harm and become aggravated enough to carry out that wish' In forcing us to ask these questions, Poe also focuses on the narrator, story, human, heart, eye, point, person, one, old, murder, insanity, sanity, out, poe, man’s, just, further, crime, convince, been, workings, think, tell-tale, something, someone, seemingly, readers, possible, others, often, normal, near, mind, might, it’s