Compare And Contrast The Tell Tale Heart And The Cask Of Amontillado

Have you read or heard of the two short stories that are called The Tell a Tale Heart or the Short story that is called called There Will Come Soft Rains. They are both short stories written by authors with different writing styles that are quite unique. Both stories were very different written by very different authors The Tell a Tale Heart was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. The other story’s author that wrote the story There Will Come Soft Rains was named Ray Bradbury. The Authors both use quite unique writing styles but they are very different types of writing style. They both are in different genres one is a horror story and one is a Sci-FI. Both of these stories are quite different but also the same as they are very interesting

Edgar Allan Poe is known for some of the most horrifying stories ever written through out time. He worked with the natural world, animals, and weather to create chilling literature. Two most notable thrillers are “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Poe was infatuated with death, disfigurement, and dark characteristics of the world. He could mix characters, setting, theme,and mood in a way that readers are automatically drawn into reading. Both of these short stories have the same major aspects in common.

Firstly, the central conflict in each work is murder; they both revolve around the main characters’ plans and actions of this terrible crime. Both stories share the same plot ideal, but differ in murder execution and justification. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator murders his victim, possibly a family member of his, because he could not stand to look at his eye anymore. He recites, “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (331). One pale eye, with a film over it that resembled a vulture, influenced the murder of the old man. The execution occurred when the narrator, “Dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” (333). The narrator smothered the old man until he suffocated and died. However, in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the narrator, Montressor, desires to kill his friend, Fortunato, because he insulted his family’s honor, and he wanted revenge. Montressor utters, “When he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (190). His murder was executed by trapping his victim in a walled-up enclosure, in the deep vaults of a remote crypt on his property. Montressor explains “With these materials (building stone and mortar) and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche” (193). Both narrators committed cruel, unnecessary murders, and they could be considered psychotic.

Different motives apply to different situations. In “The Tell Tale Heart”, the narrator mentions how the old man never wronged him, yet said, “I made up my mind to take the life

Poe was very involved in the gothic movement. He influenced gothic writing like no one else of his time. In all three of our stories “The Cask of Amontillado,” “Hop-Frog,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” we can see gothicism at its finest. Poe was a master of writing in the gothic form, he did an especially wonderful job in “The Cask of Amontillado.” In “The Cask of Amontillado,” our main character is Montresor. He has a grudge against a man named Fortunato for a reason that was never explained. The only thing we know about it is that in the first sentence the story states “THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” Now this is all we know about what Fortunato’s insult that

Poe was the first author to cater to the darker side of the mindscape. His works such as The Raven and The Pit and the Pendulum have been honored long after his mysterious death in Victorian England, although his writing weren’t widely recognized during his life. His works often deal with themes such as death and misery, and run on emotions regarding those. The work The Tell Tale Heart, is one of those, with the narrator’s insanity in overdrive as he murders an old man simply

To begin with, the Tell Tale Heart is very odd and suspenseful. It and the rewritten version are very different, and though they are both very descriptive, only one can help a reader understand the plot more. The original would be better because it tells you the narrator’s thoughts about why he wants to kill the old man, while the rewritten version, no matter what point of view, happens after the murder and would not help the reader understand the thoughts of the narrator.

There are many different similarities between the two short stories,“The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Nonetheless,“The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are in first person, meaning the characters are taking to the reader and wanting to be on their point of view. For example,“The Cask of Amontillado”, in the beginning, Montresor is talking about himself and “you, who so well know the nature of my soul” (Poe 139). Montressor wants the reader to be on his side, so if he was going to do something, the reader had to think it was the right choice even though he might have been wrong. Montresor wants revenge on Fortunato for insulting him, and has always wanted to be equal with the opponent or higher than them. In addition, “The Tell-Tale Heart” also is in first person and how the reader tells the reader their part of the story. For example, in the story the narrator was telling the reader about himself and who he is, and “observe how healthy how calmly; can tell you the whole story”( Poe 1). Since this is in first person, the readers only could understand it in the point of view that the narrator sees it or tells it. Yet, the readers never know the other side. The narrator wants to tell the reader their story but they want the reader to think their side is the correct side. The two stories both have the main character that is in involved with a murder. Fortunato insulted Montresor and since then he wanted to plan his revenge, he wants him dead

All in all the two stories are great. They both have many similarities and differences. I would have to say that I enjoyed the Cask of Amontillado better because it made a bit more sense. The milky eye confused me a bit. I cannot say that the motive for one or another are very great, they seem

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent writer who wrote many peculiar and uncanny short stories and poems. One of the stories Poe wrote, “The Tell Tale Heart,” published in 1843, is about a narrator who is paranoid about an old man’s eye, so he decides to eradicate it. Another story by Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado,” published in 1846, is about a narrator who seeks revenge on his friend because, in the past, he was insulted by him. Both stories contain narrators, which are mentally unstable, but the narrator’s traits, their motives for the murder, and how their guilt is exhibited differ.

A virtuoso of suspense and horror, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his Gothic writing style. His style is created through his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, tone, and figurative language. Punctuation-wise; dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. His sentences vary greatly; their structures are influenced by punctuation. Much of his word choice set the tone of his works. Figurative language colors his writings with description. Such is observed in the similarities between two of his most well-known short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

In the Edgar Allan Poe stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" the most prominent and important themes that are used are death, logic, and irony. The characters of the narrator and Montresor in these stories are both coldblooded murders that kill for selfish, and inane reasons who firmly believe that their actions are justified even though their rationalizations only make sense in their own minds. They both try to convince their audience that they are completely sane by giving their explanations about why they did what they did as well as their motives for killing their victims. In admitting how they murdered victims, who appear to be innocent to everyone besides them, they only succeed in proving their insanity. The

I have read both short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, ‘the Cask of Amontillado, as well as ‘the Tell Tale Heart. Between these two stories lie many similarities and few differences. For instance, both of these stories the narrator describes a murder. In the Cask, the narrator Montressor, whose sanity is questionable, describes the way he murdered his rival Fortunato. The man Fortunato, who isn’t all that fortunate in death, has insulted Montressor many times and Montressor seeks revenge for so long, but hasn’t acted until now. Fortunato was a connoisseur of wine, and was a very wealthy man. Montressor is equally as wealthy as he, however, he has something to prove by killing Fortunato, but doesn’t want to be caught doing so. "I must not only

There are two main characters in the story of The Tell-Tale Heart which Poe has refined to reflect the

Both of these works have very similar narrators. By just reading the works, they seem very different because of who they killed and why, where and with whom they lived, and how they murdered their victims. But, by analyzing the two men, they become more and more alike. They both tell their stories in the first person and write from their jail cells. Each chose to reference an animal in their stories. The two men, both hide the corpses in the structures of the homes. Likewise, the narrators try to defend their sanity by logically justifying their horrific actions based on their mental states throughout the flashbacks of the events.