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* AxCrazy: The narrator, despite their proclamations to the contrary, is quite a delusional, deranged soul and proves it by violently murdering the old man that lived with them simply because of his strange-looking eye. It doesn’t help that they quickly devolve into a ranting, raving wreck when questioned by the authorities.
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* AxCrazy: The narrator, despite their proclamations to the contrary, is quite a delusional, deranged soul and proves it by violently murdering the old man that lived with them simply because of his strange-looking eye. It doesn’t doesn't help that they quickly devolve into a ranting, raving wreck when questioned by the authorities.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It’s left up in the air whether the narrator did in fact hear the old man’s continuing heartbeat, if it was merely the result of a fit of delusional guilt and paranoia, or if it was the death watch beetles in the walls of the old house, which make their own little ticking noises.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: It's not clear exactly what is wrong with the narrator, just that they're certifiably mad, despite their claims to the contrary.
** The clearest bits we do get is the narrator definitely suffers from monomania and likely a delusional mind, possibly schizophrenia. Another theory suggests if they can hear as well as they claim to, they’re likely suffering from misophonia, an intense adverse reaction to certain noises, on top of their schizophrenia. However, since this was written in a time where the best kind of mental health was simply keeping the insane locked away or subjected to inhumane “treatments”, we’ll never know for sure.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: It's not clear exactly what is wrong with the narrator, just that they're certifiably mad, despite their claims to the contrary.
** The clearest bits we do get is the narrator definitely suffers from monomania and likely a delusional mind, possibly schizophrenia. Another theory suggests if they can hear as well as they claim to, they’re likely suffering from misophonia, an intense adverse reaction to certain noises, on top of their schizophrenia. However, since this was written in a time where the best kind of mental health was simply keeping the insane locked away or subjected to inhumane “treatments”, we’ll never know for sure.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It’s It's left up in the air whether the narrator did in fact hear the old man’s man's continuing heartbeat, if it was merely the result of a fit of delusional guilt and paranoia, or if it was the death watch beetles in the walls of the old house, which make their own little ticking noises.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: It's not clear exactly what is wrong with the narrator, just that they're certifiably mad, despite their claims to thecontrary.
**contrary. The clearest bits we do get is the narrator definitely suffers from monomania and likely a delusional mind, possibly schizophrenia. Another theory suggests if they can hear as well as they claim to, they’re they're likely suffering from misophonia, an intense adverse reaction to certain noises, on top of their schizophrenia. However, since this was written in a time where the best kind of mental health was simply keeping the insane locked away or subjected to inhumane “treatments”, we’ll never know for sure. schizophrenia.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: It's not clear exactly what is wrong with the narrator, just that they're certifiably mad, despite their claims to the
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* PerpSweating: The narrator ''assumes'' that the cops know what they did and they can hear the heart beating, and are just toying with them. In other words, the perp sweated ''themself''.
** Given how manic the murderer behaves during the detectives' visit, one wonders whether the detectives really bought the murderer's alibi. It's possible that they ''were'' sweating the perp, just not for the reasons that the perp thinks: they didn't hear any heartbeat, they just saw that the perp was psychotic.
** Given how manic the murderer behaves during the detectives' visit, one wonders whether the detectives really bought the murderer's alibi. It's possible that they ''were'' sweating the perp, just not for the reasons that the perp thinks: they didn't hear any heartbeat, they just saw that the perp was psychotic.
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* PerpSweating: The narrator ''assumes'' that the cops know what they did and they can hear the heart beating, and are just toying with them. In other words, the perp sweated ''themself''.
**''themself''. Given how manic the murderer behaves during the detectives' visit, one wonders whether the detectives really bought the murderer's alibi. It's possible that they ''were'' sweating the perp, just not for the reasons that the perp thinks: they didn't hear any heartbeat, they just saw that the perp was psychotic.
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Crosswicking Dismembering The Body.
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* DismemberingTheBody: The VillainProtagonist dismembers his victim's body and hides it under the floorboards. This does not stop him from [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane imagining/hearing]] the corpse's heart beating while the police are visiting, driving him to expose his own crime.
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** The narrator insists that they aren't insane, including in the first line of dialogue, chocking up the things they see and hear in their insanity as just having very acute sight and hearing.
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** The narrator insists that they aren't insane, including in the first line of dialogue, chocking chalking up the things they see and hear in their insanity as to just having very acute sight and hearing.
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* EyeMotifs: Throughout the film, the camera focuses on white round objects - the full moon, a water pitcher, some lightbulbs - that represent the narrator's obsession with the Old Man's eye.
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* EyeMotifs: Throughout the film, the camera focuses on white round objects - the objects--the full moon, a water pitcher, some lightbulbs - that lightbulbs--that represent the narrator's obsession with the Old Man's eye.
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Ambiguous Gender is a character whose gender is unknown to their environment. The gender of the narrator is not specified toward the audience, but there is no indication that the narrator's gender is a mystery to the other characters in the story. Not Ambiguous Gender.
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* AmbiguousGender: It's never clearly stated whether the narrator is male or female, though most assume the former.
