Which theme is conveyed in this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe?
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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? Hearken! and observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion
there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his
eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by
degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.
O A.
The insane have no sense of time.
O B.
The insane are obsessed with mortality.
○ C.
The insane are incapable of using deception.
D.
The insane lack imagination.
E.
The insane live in a reality of their own.