confidence

The Tell-Tale Heart
 * In the enthusiasm of my __confidence__, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.**

Because Edgar Allan Poe **(Remember that the murderer/narrator is NOT Poe. It's a character Poe created. 1197254501)** has full confidence in his plan, he almost gets away with murder. He convinces himself in his brain that nothing can go wrong because it was a genius plan executed flawlessly. He had no doubts that he was going to get away with this. Becuase he had fully convinced himself, he was able to act competely normal around the investegators and police. But, sometimes, overconfidence and the weight of guilt will cause you to snap like Edgar Allan Poe at the end of the story. (Again, Poe is not the "I" of the story.1197254501)

I looked up //confidence// on wikipedia to see what information I could recieve about it.

//**Confidence** is a mental process that arises from considering if a person or thing is capable of something. **Self-confidence** is having confidence in oneself when considering a capability. **Overconfidence** is having unmerited confidence--believing something or someone is capable when they are not. Scientifically, a situation can only be judged after the aim has been achieved or not. It is incorrect to label someone overconfident unless that aim has been achieved or not, since one cannot know whether something is possible, only believe, which is confidence. Confidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as those without it may fail or not try because they lack it, and those with it may succeed because they have it, rather than because of an innate ability.//

This is a personality flaw in the character. This is also mental instability in my opinion. We are human-beings and the burden of being guilty of doing something wrong is why the character admits to his crime without anyone even asking him. his conciounce was eating away at him to a point where his long, well though out plan went to complete waster with in two seconds when the annoyance of wrong-doing in his head finally annoyed him enough where he had to tell all of what he did! 1197043227