Poe's writings are not devoid of morality, and as a representation of a guilty conscience, "The Tell-Tale Heart" has been considered one of the most efficient dishes ever designed (Quartier 310). "I find it almost impossible to believe that Poe has no serious or artistic motivation in 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' that he simply revels in horror and only inadvertently illuminates the depths of the human soul ", says James Gargano. He further states that although Poe's stories sometimes appear to be nothing more than the ramblings of mad narrators, the structure, development, arrangement, and irony of the narrator's confessions allow Poe to offer ideas that the narrators themselves never really possessed (“The Question” 328). ). For example, the narrator is not sure of the motive for the murder of his elderly companion, except that the pale blue eye annoyed him. Some critics have speculated that the worsening of eternal time or psychological similarities to the old man caused the narrator to commit his crime. However, it is not the theme of time or unity with the old man that drives the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" to murder, but the depiction of his own sin in the "Evil Eye." In Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," E. Arthur Robinson falsely proposes, "These two psychological themes - the indefinite extension of subjective time and the psychic fusion of the killer and the killed - are closely linked in history” (259). The characters' senses are alert in the darkness as the narrator watches the sleeping old man night after night, and the long periods of silence create a slow-motion effect. Even the narrator's physical movements are painfully slow and prolonged (Robinson 257-59). The telling heartbeat may be light...... middle of paper...... similar to how it is impossible for the narrator to leave the house in which his sin resides (the eye ). all parts of “The Tell-Tale Heart” are analyzed in depth, the true motivation of the murderer becomes obvious, and the reader knows his desire to destroy his own sin, which he sees in the eyes of his old friend and living companion. Other theories regarding time and the combination of killer and victim can be overturned by evidence supporting the idea that the truth lies in the narrator's "evil eye" and hatred of sin. Many aspects of the eye resemble sin and the narrator resembles typical human nature. This unique vision of the relationship between man and his own sin, manifested through the murderer and the "evil eye", is surely what allows the "revealing heart" to be called "one of the most effective ever conceived” (Ward 310).