Written by Ronald Brown & Cindy
Is it true that people lose their sanity when their tolerance level decreases? What makes people think crimes that they commit can always be gotten away with. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story shows the insanity of a man on a thunderous, stormy day. Also of how he thinks he could get a way with a crime without anyone knowing about it.
The story takes place at an Old man’s house at midnight. The man may be an employee of the old man. Anyway he goes to check on the old man and he sees something that annoys him. The old man’s eye annoys him so he decides kills him. He tries to cover it up by chopping the man body up in a tub and leaving no traces of blood. I call the man mad because he talks to himself and the audience saying "I know you think me mad". This mad man tries to cover up every single detail, but when cops come to his door and inside his house to ask him questions he loses his sanity. He thinks he hears the old man still alive from where he had hid the body. The madman thinks he hears the heart beat. In the end he confesses that he had killed the old man and shows the police where the body is.
The reaction that I had got from this short story was that this man was really mad because of the way he spoke to himself. You would actually think that this character was mad, losing sanity over someone’s eye.
This story reminds me of William Shakespeare Macbeth. Because Macbeth never thinks he’s going to get caught for murdering the king. In this suspenseful thriller I had a feeling that the Madman and Macbeth were going to get caught.
It is not good to do something you don’t think you have the heart to do it. If you have a guilty conscience, you will most likely get caught. That’s what had happened to the Madman and Macbeth. Both of their names start with an "M". An adjective I would describe with is misguided. They were both bad and did not know how to handle things the right way.