Read the excerpt from "the tell tale heart."
which statement best compares these two excerpts?
true! nervous very, very dreadfully nervous i had been
and am; but why will you say that i am mad? the disease
had sharpened my senses not destroyed not dulled
them. above all was the sense of hearing acute, i heard all
things in the heaven and in the earth. i heard many things in
hell. how, then, am i mad? hearkenl and observe how
healthily how calmly i can tell you the whole story,
both narrators appear to be completely rational, which
makes them both reliable narrators,
both narrators admit to suffering from madness, which
makes them both unreliable narrators,
both narrators admit to having enhanced senses, which
makes them both reliable narrators,
both narrators appear to be irrational, which makes them
both unreliable narrators,
read the excerpt from "the black cat."
for the most wild, yet most homely narrative which i am
about to pen, i neither expect nor solicit belief. mad indeed
would i be to expect it, in a case where my very senses
reject their own evidence. yet, mad am i not and very
surely do i not dream. but to morrow i die, and to-day
would unburthen my soul