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Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale HeartWhat Should the Killers punishment Be?In Edgar Allan Poes The Tell-Tale Heart, the fabricator describes the brutal murder of his roommate, season constantly pleading his case of sanity. Through this, we come to realize that the fibber is nonhing other than insane. Although the fibber is insane, he committed a fanciful murder and should pay for what he did. In a case comparable this, although the person is insane, you want to give them a cruel and unjust sentence, equal the cruel and unjust murder they committed. Criminals and insane people are twain a threat to themselves and society but in different ways, which is why there is jail for criminals and insane asylums for psychopaths.The Tell-Tale Heart illustrates the human spirit of the narrator as a mysterious and inexplicable force. After reading the head start paragraph of the story, I have already decided that the narrator is, in fact, insane. I heard all things in the heaven and in th e earth. I heard many things in hell (Poe 1). Anyone who earnestly states that they heard things in heaven and hell clearly is not in their right mind. The narrator then tries proving his sanity due to the fact that he stack recount the whole story calmly this in fact does the opposite. Anyone who can signalize the story of police coming in the middle of the night intimately a murder calmly is strange. Hearken And observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story (Poe 1). So far, everything he says proves that he is insane.The culprit states clearly that he enjoys the act of killing. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the hard bed over him, I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far gone (Poe 2). Not only does he kill the previous(a) man because of an infected eye, but he to a fault dismembers the body. He as well as brags of how neat he was and seems very proud of this. He is clearly not in his right mind his acts are shocking. When the p olice arrive, the narrator invites them in for coffee, where they drink the coffee in the roommates room right above the dead, mangle body. Anyone who was trying to get away with murder clearly would not do any of the above.I have concluded that the narrator is guilty, but is also insane.