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The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness: A STEM Activity “The Tell-Tale Heart”

The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness: A STEM Activity “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The Argument Essay. The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness. Argument Writing Prompt:

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The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness: A STEM Activity “The Tell-Tale Heart”

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  1. The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness: A STEM Activity“The Tell-Tale Heart” The Argument Essay

  2. The Tell-Tale Signs of Madness Argument Writing Prompt: The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” has been charged with first degree murder for killing the old man with the vulture eye. You are a lawyer who has been assigned to defend him in court. Your legal team has decided on an insanity plea so that your client will not be sent to jail or given a life sentence. With an insanity plea, he will be confined to a mental institution. This is the best-case scenario that your legal team can hope for. In order to plead insanity for your client, you must prove in court that he has a mental illness. Your job as his lawyer is to compose an argument identifying the narrator’s mental illness and providing evidence to support your claim. Your legal team has asked that you write up an argument essay with a diagnosis and evidence.

  3. Legal Plea of Insanity • In a criminal trial, the word “insanity” means something more specific than when we use it in everyday speech. You can’t say that someone on trial is “insane” just because he did something that most of us would consider “crazy” (like killing someone, chopping up the body, and hiding the pieces under the floorboards). • That’s because, in a trial, when we say someone is insane, we’re saying that the person didn’t fully understand what he or she was doing and, therefore, shouldn’t be held responsible for his or her actions.

  4. Legal Plea of Insanity • Read the following legal definition of insanity: • Insanity is a mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot manage his/her own affairs, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior. In criminal cases, a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity" will require a trial on the issue of the defendant's insanity (or sanity) at the time the crime was committed. • In this context, "not guilty" does not mean the person did not commit the criminal act for which he or she is charged. It means that when the person committed the crime, he or she could not tell right from wrong or could not control his or her behavior because of severe mental defect or illness. Such a person, the law holds, should not be held criminally responsible for his or her behavior. (INTERNET SOURCE: www.USLegal.com)

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