Tell Tale Heart Vs Black Cat Research Paper

In Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator is so bothered by an old man’s eye that he decides to kill him. In the end, he thinks he hears the beating of the old man’s heart even after he has died, so the narrator confesses to the police. Throughout the story, the narrator keeps insisting he is sane, “but why will you say that I am mad? The disease has sharpened my senses – not destroyed-not dulled them... How, then, am I mad?” (Poe). However, despite his constant justification of his judgment, on cannot help but question the narrator’s true sagacity.

In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe illustrates how obsession can quickly turn into madness and destroy its victim and those connected to them. The narrator tries to convince us that he is in full control of his thought yet he is experiencing a condition that causes him to be over sensitive. Throughout the story we can see his obsession proving his insanity. The narrator claims that he can be a bit anxious and over emotional, he is not insane. He tries to give proof this through the calmness of his tone as he tells this tale. He then explains how although he has much love for an old man who has always treated him kind, he

In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" we question the sanity of the narrator almost immediately, but we cannot prove either way whether or not he is insane. I have read a lot of Poe's work although not all of it. His mysterious style of writing greatly appeals to me. Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and the hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. I believe, for the most part, that this is done through his use of setting and his narrative style. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the setting was used to portray a dark and gloomy picture of an old house lit only with lantern light with a possible madman lurking inside. I think this was

Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" is a short story about how a murderer's conscience overtakes him and whether the narrator is insane or if he suffers from over acuteness of the senses. Poe suggests the narrator is insane by the narrator's claims of sanity, the narrator's actions bring out the narrative irony of the story, and the narrator is insane according to the definition of insanity as it applies to "The Tell Tale Heart".

“The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” is similarly dark romanticism because both stories showed emotion taking over the character making them see things and making them go crazy. The narrator had a lot of negative emotion towards his victims. This emotion led to the narrator hearing/seeing things. After the In “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrators were taken over from negative emotion, showing Dark Romantic traits.

In “The Black Cat,” the man was married to a patient and caring woman. They acquired another cat that, according to the man, looked remarkably like Pluto (709). One day, the cat almost tripped the man while they were walking down a flight of stairs. This “exasperated” the man “to madness” (Poe 709). He lifted an axe and “aimed a blow at the animal,” (Poe 709).

In Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator explains how he is not mad, how cautious he is in planning a murder. A person can argue however with the narrator of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, which he is indeed mad. The anxiety the narrator experiences through out the story makes him mad, it is also the guilt that brought on more anxiety to the narrator at the end of the story. The narrator constantly speaks of how he is not mad; he constantly as the reader why would they think he is mad. “True! –nervous-very, very, dreadfully nervous. I had been and still am; but why will you say that I am mad?” (Poe 884). The narrator does not believe that he is a mad man, much less have any mental issues. In “Overview: ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’” the

(Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart, 1).The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart claims that he has some kind of disease which makes all his senses very sensitive and that is the way how he explains all his foolish thoughts. In the story The Black Cat the narrators is almost same. Their sanity is something that no one can understand. The way how they act and how they make decisions. It may be noticed that in both stories the narrator thinks a lot about what would happen if he does certain things and what are the consequences.

In the beginning, the narrator gave a confession in retrospect; he was an honorable man born as a sane, kind, loving. Additionally, he had a great love for animals. He married a girl at a young age. Their house was like a mini zoo; birds, gold fish, a dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat. The man singles out a huge, beautiful all-black cat as his favorite, named Pluto. Because of its unusual intelligence, the wife jokes around that the cat might be a witch in disguise. Over the course of time, the narrator and Pluto created a strong bond between them.

Poe has a history of presenting characters with personal flaws who often confess to atrocious deeds. Both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat tell the story of a seemingly senseless murder complicated by the vaugery of preternatural occurrences. The reader is forced to question whether or not they should believe what they are being told. Both of these narrators, the wife killer and the landlord killer, are unreliable and have a similar theme. The narrators are both mentally unstable however their conditions vary. The psychological implications of each character's’ attitude suggests while both are crazy, one is a sociopath and the other is a psychopath.

     In Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the storyteller tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. At the very beginning of the story, he asks, "...why will you say I am mad?" When the storyteller tells his story, it's obvious why. He attempts to tell his story in a calm manner, but occasionally jumps into a frenzied rant. Poe's story demonstrates an inner conflict; the state of madness and emotional break-down that the subconscious can inflict upon one's self.

Edgar Allen Poe has created many stories that are dark, suspenseful, and murderous such as The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat. His works tend to resemble one another in style, mood, theme, and plot. The ways in which these elements are displayed show contrast between the two. The Tell- Tale Heart and The Black Cat are two brutal tales with similar themes about being insane. Both stories are told from the first person point of view with a maniacal narrator.

At the beginning of the story, the man was essentially “happy” with his wife and black cat, Pluto. The story is light until the man begins drinking. He has begun to like that the cat did not want to be around him and avoided his presence anymore. This is possibly due to the fact that he is not happy with his drinking. However, one night when he came home and frightened the cat, which

At first, I thought the main protagonist in The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, was truly mad, but as the story progressed I got a whole new outlook on the main protagonist. Why do you think the protagonist killed the old man, and then confessed? There are key points to this question, is he a calculated killer or is he just truly mad? The Narrator says there is a motive for murdering the old man, his pale blue eye. “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees-- very gradually-- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever”, this gives the reader a sense of insanity but the motive here is the narrator is a calculated killer. The word choice he uses in paragraph 3, shows how

Furthermore, the inconsistencies of the counts told by the narrator emphasize the unreliability of his character. Although his account seems credible, there seem to be holes in the story he fabricated. One instance illustrates this perfectly. The excerpt in its full length laid on introductory details of the account of the narrator.  However, one quote had brought a new dimension to what we thought we knew about the narrator. The quote stating, “ FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be expected, in a case where my very senses reject their own advice yet, mad am I not.” ( The Black Cat pg.1).  Interestingly, the quote acts as a warning to the reader. Comparable to a mature tv show stating viewer discretion is advised. A warning which tells the readers to believe what you want to believe. The quote in itself contains a contradiction. A contradiction that due to his inconsistency of his account exposes his unconscious drives. In the quote, the statement of the story that he told is so unbelievable that even himself cannot believe it; contradicts