Comparing The Tell-Tale Heart And The Black Cat

Edgar Allan Poe was a man who wrote poems and short stories of mystery and macabre from the ages 18 to 40, where he then died of unknown reasons. Poe’s writing had a consistent theme throughout them at a certain point. That theme was that he couldn’t get over his wife’s death; she had died of tuberculosis. Two of these stories were titled “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat.” In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a man kills another man because his eye made him feel weak and fragile. He hid the body in the floor only to be found out later because his own heart and mind were beating so hard he couldn’t take the guilt and admitted to the murder. Then, in “The Black Cat,” a man rips the eye out of his own cat then later hangs it. After that, he

In both the “The Tell Tale Heart”, and”The Black Cat”, the stories end with a death of a person. Some events in the murder are similar and different.

A good story has a twist. Most stories have a cause-and-effect. A cause-and-effect is the story, and how it plays out. Both “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs Have a cause-and-effect which created suspense within their stories.

The comparative Essay The “Tell-Tale Heart” is written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1843 being the oldest one of the three. “Don’t Ask Jack” was written by Neil Gaiman in 2009 (UK version) being the most recent. With that in mind it would mean that the text “The Sandman” would right in the middle between them, made in 1991 by Paul Berry. All the plots in the short stories were very scary and dark.

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the main character was deeply disturbed not by a cat’s eye but, by a man’s eye. He described that the eye had the same look as that of a vulture’s (Poe). It was “a pale blue, with film over it” (Poe 702). Every night at mid-night, the obsessive man would sneak into the other man’s room and watch to see if his “vulture” eye was open; but, the man was always soundly asleep. On one particular evening, the man’s eye was wide open and the sight of his eye made him furious (Poe). He decided to drag the man to the floor and smother him with his own bed until he was dead.

Evidently, the symbols used by Poe indicate his fear of death and eventually dying himself. It is how the narrator became obsessed with the old man and wanting to kill him, when even he did not know how, “the first idea entered [his] brain” (Poe). The narrator refers to the old man’s eye as, “the eye of a vulture” (Poe). A vulture is a bird that preys on the sick or

Edgar Allen Poe wrote two interesting pieces on a man committing murder. The one story was called The Black Cat, and the other was The Telltale Heart. They both hold many similar meanings and values. They both also have key elements that separate the two stories from being on of the same. After this introduction paragraph is done with, we shall divulge ourselves in these two tales.

Poe wrote, “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing,” which seems to perfectly describe the short stories The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat. The murderer in The Tell-Tale Heart is the more insane personality of the two stories. While the two are similar in their motives and relationship with the victims, they differ in their intentions and in the way they are discovered as killers.

In “The Tell-Tale heart” and “The Black Cat” there are many similarities from the murder and the motive of the killer. The man in “The Black Cat” is irritated and cannot stand to look at the cat or animals, he feels compelled to harm them much like the man in “The Tell Tale Heart” feels towards the man's grey eye. These things is what the murderers claim drove them to commit the crime. Neither of the cat or old man had hurt the perpetrators in anyway, in fact both the men in “The Black Cat” and “The Tell Tale Heart” cared for the very things they had killed. “There was no reason for what I did. I did not hate the old man; I even loved him. He had never hurt me.” - “The Tell-Tale Heart” and in the alcohol crazed killer in “The Black Cat” says

In the story there are many objects that have a symbolic meaning. However, the most notable one is the old man's impaired eye. Poe states the character is terrified by the eye when he says, “He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold”(page 1). Symbolically, it means that the character has issues with their "inner self" his outlook on the world.

The Black Cat is a short horror story written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer famous all over the world for his horror tales, in 1843, in the Saturday Evening Post. It has been often compared to another Poe’s story called The Tell Tale Heart. In both stories, the main character is an arrogant assassin who believes himself unassailable, but he also breaks down several times and he reminds his guilt.

There are cases of films detering from their original written counterparts. However if the original author would be appreciative of the film is often a mystery. In the film adaptation of “The Tell Tale Heart,” directed by Steve Carver, and originally written by Edgar Allen Poe, the mystery is more so because Poe had been dead for over a century by the time that this adaptation of his story was made. Poe would have been appreciative of the film adaption of his story The Tell Tale Heart directed by Steve Carver because it seamlessly integrates his story The Black Cat into this storyline, it adds depth by changing the relationship between the butler and the old man, and lastly adding a detective element into the plot.

The narrator reveals his inability to recognize that the “eye” is the “I,” or identity, of the old man. The eyes symbolize the essence of human identity, which cannot be separated from the body. The eye cannot be killed without causing the man to die. According to the narrator, “For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.” (Poe), the eye not the old man haunted him and had to be eliminated. Characterization also helps the reader understand the theme. I think that the narrator is unnamed to give the reader another sense that this whole story could happen to them, or anyone they know. It shows the theme that everyone has an evil side, and although it is hard to admit, all humans are capable of committing a murder such as this. But just like everyone is capable of committing this kind of crime, everyone also feels the guilt after the deed is done. As the story goes on, the readers can see the madness growing in the narrator. At first, he tells the story quite calmly. He even explains that after the murder, he was completely calm with the police officers. The narrator then states “The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them.” (Poe), thinking he could get by with the murder but he could not stand the guilt that came along with it. By the end of the story when he hears the heartbeat, his whole mannerism changes. He is stressed and his words and thoughts come out in a panicked tone. Interestingly, there is only one set of spoken words that the

Interior monologue all throughout the story, this is mostly how the narrator speaks to the audience. By using interior monologue Poe uses logical appeal to show why the Protagonist wanted to kill the old man. The Protagonist states that the old man has never done anything to him and has always been pleasant to be around, it is the old man’s eye, his “blind” eye that the Protagonist is afraid of. We know this because of what the Protagonist says in the second paragraph, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I

Edgar Allan poe is an american writer best known for his poetry and short stories; mainly his darker morbid stories. Poe is the master of fear, for fear is what makes Poe unforgettable. Poe lived a sad life due to the fact those he loved died. His brother and mother died at the age of 24 , and so did his beloved wife Virginia (A&E). Many say that his muse was his dead wife, because Poe once stated “The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world” (A&E).