Read the excerpt from "the tell-tale heart.”

if still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when i describe the wise precautions i took for the concealment of the body. the night waned, and i worked hastily, but in silence. first of all i dismembered the corpse. i cut off the head and the arms and the legs.

the narrator of this excerpt is unreliable because

a. he is very intelligent but not highly educated.

b. he is very naive and inexperienced.

c. he wants to be caught for the crime he has just committed.

d. he claims to be rational while committing an irrational act.

D. he claims to be rational while committing an irrational act.

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe tells the story of a man who murders an old man because his eye made him nervous. The story is narrated by the murderer, and throughout the story, we realize that the narrator is unreliable. This excerpt is an example of that. While the narrator believes he is sane while he performs all his acts, the nature and justification of his actions are extremely irrational, which show the reader that the man is in fact mad.

answer: d.she abandons people when they least expect it.

in the monk's tale, we encounter seventeen stories that relate historical events. all of these stories have tragic commonalities. they tell the stories of heroes who, despite their success in life, all met sad ends. the monk blames these sad outcomes on fortune. one of fortune's traits is that she abandons people when they least expect it. this is one of the most common themes of medieval tragedies.