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My class is doing a court case on Tell-tale Heart. I need 15 questions for people in the room. Please read the tell-tale heart then think of questions that could help me win my case against the narrator. Come up with 5 questions that I (the lawyer) could use against the narrator.

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If you need different questions from the ones below, let me know and I will try my best to assist.

Questions to use against the narrator:

You yourself entertained the thought that you might be insane, but ultimately brush it aside. You express that you have no reason to kill the man, yet you kill him. This contradiction is proof that while you were insane, you knew what you did was wrong. Why not seek help?

If you truly felt remorse for your actions, why was your first instinct to dispose of the body rather than to immediately confess to your crime?

You spent more than a week setting up this murder. This was not a spur of the moment murder. It was premeditated. Can you justify this? Does this not prove you to be a guilty individual?

You express taking pride in your work. Is this something that a stable, innocent person would do?

Questions for the room:

(I apologize, but I could only come up with ten.)

Is the narrator reliable?

Were his actions justified?

Was his guilt genuine, or was it just an attribute of his psychosis?

Was he truly seeing the ‘evil eye’?

Even if he was, is fear a reason to murder?

Is the beating of the heart evidence of insanity?

He talked about his feelings of power and excitement breaking into the old man’s chamber. Does this not further prove that he should be imprisoned?

Does that not prove that he is not only a murderer, but a person who enjoys the act of killing?

Should a person of this type not be punished and placed where they cannot hurt another person?

This man dismembered a human. If you found a body that had been ripped apart, you would want the person who did it to be put away right?