The Monkey's Paw And Tell Tale Heart Analysis

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

The narrator butchered the man. That is an indisputable fact. The question is, is he sane? The narrator stalked an innocent man for 8 nights, then brutally murdered and grotesquely dismembered him. He then proceeds to put the body parts under the floor boards. The narrator talks about his surprisingly logical thought process, the careful and perfect execution of his plan, and his terrible guilt as he could hear the dead man’s heart beat. The defense will tell you that this man is an innocent, sedentary man, and that everything he did was the fault of his mental illness, but do not listen to them. This man is deleterious, and it is imperative that he is locked away. The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was sane because he could distinguish fantasy from reality, he could feel guilt, and he was thinking logically. This evidence will prove that the narrator is sane.

Both stories that are used for this essay have a few things in common. The characters in each story get so overwhelmed with the idea of self-satisfaction that they ignore the potential consequences that will come from their actions. As an example, in “The Monkeys Paw”, Mr. And Mrs. White are warned about the consequences that The Paw could cause, but instead, they still choose to overlook the consequences which leads to the loss their son’s life. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the Narrator is overwhelmed with the desire for self-satisfaction so much that he doesn’t see that his actions could impact many people and even make himself realize he made a terrible mistake. Because of this, in both “The Monkeys Paw” by W. W. Jacobs and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the readers are left in suspense when the characters receive major consequences as a result of their selfish actions because it was not expected that such small acts could cause such great consequences.

All throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” the reader follows along as the narrator explains the eight days where he plotted against the old man. During this explanation, the readers forms an opinion on if the narrator is a calculated killer or mentally insane. It is understandable why some people might think that the narrator is a calculated killer because of the planning that the narrator mentions. However, there are more scenes where the narrator can be interpreted as being mentally insane. Therefore, the narrator is better described as mentally insane because he can “hear” the heartbeat of the old man and he acted upon impulse when he killed the old man.

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.

1.Why do you think Poe has set his story at night time, in the night?

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.

To begin, the characters in both “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” largely perform egocentric acts. In “The Monkey’s Paw," the characters have every opportunity to dispose of the monkey’s paw they gain, yet they retain it and proceed to make extremely selfish wishes. These wishes, ironically, were supposed to bring improvements; however, they only brought about untold pain. This lends itself to the author’s goal by revealing to the audience should consider consequences before performing a selfish act. Additionally, the characters in “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” start off very similar to those in the opposing story.

For example, In “The Monkey’s Paw,” how there was “someone or something at the door.” That at the end of the story it has suspense that the audience have a self- hatred moment to figure out what happen next. Another example, in the “The Tell Tale Heart” The narrator heard a “heartbeat getting louder and louder.” The narrator thinks it is the old man’s heartbeat. He finally had a reach of suspense and told the cops everything in a rage, like in “the Anatomy of self – hatred “rage belongs to some part of you.”

When you wish something you could end up sorry. In “The Monkey’s Paw” people are granted 3 wishes from the monkey’s paw but eventually they find out the wishes come with consequences. In “The Tell-Tales Heart” the man was so sickened with the old man’s eye that he killed him. In both stories it holds in the suspicions and have a cause and effect for the stories.

The young man does love the old man that never did him wrong, but the eye of the old man that vulture eye was driving him mad. So late during the night he would go and spy on the old man while he was sleeping But, one night he had killed the old man thus getting rid of the old mans eye forever up until the police come and he goes nuts and tells the police where the body is to the old man. The story causes the suspense by the young man going so mad over this old mans eye that he calls “Vulture eye” and then later ends up killing the old man to rid himself of the eye forever. “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was! 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 made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” Edgar Allen Poe P.g. 89.The effect on the man is that eye is making him go mad, mad enough to kill the old man over just his eye. If the eye the cause of the man going mad was not here, maybe just maybe the man wouldn’t be mad crazy over the old man's eye and kill him. It proves my thesis on the suspense it gives you when you rid about this man who is going mad crazy enough to kill someone over an eye and the relationship between this man and old man no mater how the eye mad him

From that quote we know that there is going to be and will be something strange about the paw. Well, in the end something bad does happen, the paw ends up killing the whole family either it be emotionally or physically. The cause and effect is very strong in this story, the cause was the family getting the paw, but then ignoring its mystical powers and the effect was their family being destroyed. Just like “The Monkey’s Paw” the story “The Tell Tale Heart” also has it’s fair use of cause and effect that also creates suspense. In the story you have an insane man that thinks his boss has an evil eye, he thinks it was originally the eye of a vulture. One night while the old man was sleeping he stalked him and killed him, You could tell the man wasn’t thinking when he killed the old man. When people are insane they tend to not know what they are doing, “For it was not the old man I felt I had to kill, it the eye, his evil eye.” Page 91. The quote shows that the man wasn't mad at the old man, but only in his eye, once he successfully killed the old man he put his body parts into the wooden

The horror genre is often used for entertainment, but occasionally important life lessons can be found within the tales. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacob’s are two such stories that have much to say when digging more deeply into their pages. “The Tell-Tale Heart” tells a story of a deranged man who becomes obsessed with his elderly neighbor’s blind eye, leading to him killing the old man and burying the body beneath the floorboards. “The Monkey’s Paw” is a story about a family that comes to possess an ancient relic that will supposedly grant three wishes. A careless wish leads to the son’s death, and consequent horrors ensue. “The Tell-Tale Heart” has a theme of “Guilt may lead people to their undoing.”

This essay is going over the compare and contrast of cause and effect relationships between “he Tell-Tale Heart” By Edgar Alan Poe and “The Monkeys Paw” By W.W Jacobs. Throughout the next few paragraphs, I will be explaining the lessons you can take from in these two stories. Although not exactly alike in the story, they both show cause-and-effect relationships clearly. Throughout, please take note of the explanations for the relationships and why I decided to write about those two stories specifically.

It is difficult for people to understand what truly goes through the mind of someone sick with a mental disease. People do not know what drives mentally ill victims to do the abnormal things they do and why in their minds their actions are reasonable. An example of a story told from the perspective of a mentally ill person is Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”. In this story, the narrator plots to kill the Old Man that he lives with and after he goes through with the crime, he ends up confessing to the murder to the police because of how much his health declined over the timeline of events in this narrative. The narrator says that the disease he has does not make him delirious, but through the narration of the story and his behavior throughout, it is obvious that he falls victim to some sort of emotional disorder that suffers from delirium as a side effect. As a result of that, throughout “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the point of view that Edgar Allan Poe writes in and the character development of the narrator in the story are signs of a mental illness victim.