Mr Smith Insane Analysis

Ladies and Gentlemen, in the time before, during, and after the crime, I have reason to believe Mr. Smith is insane. The legal definition of insane is a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot manage his/her own affairs, or is subject to uncontrollable and impulsive behavior. You also could not tell right from wrong or control your behavior because of mental illness. I believe Mr. Smith shows many signs for insanity during the murder of Mr. Johnson. The first sign would be telling between fantasy and reality.The first time showing signs of not telling between them would be, “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in the hell” (55). Mr. Smith thinks he can hear things in places that would be

The next thing was, “It increased my fury… so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror” (58). He himself said it was uncontrollable and he could barely manage himself and it was just too much for him to handle.

Another sign of his insanity would be uncontrollable and impulsive behavior. He said, “With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room” (58). Mr. Smith couldn’t keep himself from murdering Mr. Johnson. He had waited, but he couldn’t wait very long and was unable to control himself, and made an impulsive decision. “First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs” (59). Mr. Smith at this time was very impulsive with cutting off all the limbs and the head, which shows he can’t control himself leading to insanity.

The last sign of insanity is knowing right from wrong.“I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly that no human eye-not even his-could have detected anything wrong” (59). Mr. smith thought that what he did was very clever and that he was good at what he was doing. “There was nothing to wash out-no stain of any kind-no blood spot whatever. A tub had cut all-ha! Ha!” (59) Mr. Smith thought that this was well