The Tell Tale Heart Vs The Black Cat

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.

Throughout, the narrator’s madness is depicted through his unrealistic rationale to kill the old man because of his opposition toward his eye. Similarly, in another Poe tale, The Black Cat, Poe uses a comparable contrast between logic and an irrational resulting behavior. In this story, the narrator kills his cat that he claims to love, illustrating the narrator’s madness. In both stories, the narrators commit atrocious crimes without any semblance of logical motive. In the Tell-Tale Heart, Poe has the narrator tell a tale of logic and rational thinking, but ends up conveying madness in the purest sense of the

Have you heard of the crazy new books called “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Monkeys Paw”. In both stories, each one has a conflict, and in “The Monkeys Paw” they found out that with each wish comes a consequence. Also in “The Tell-tales Heart” the man is filled with such grief he rats himself out. The cause and effect relationships in the "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Monkeys Paw" the old man rats himself out and for each wish that was granted came a consequence.

Edgar Allan Poe has a dark sense of literary meaning. Within "The Tell-Tale Heart" it 's shown when Poe incorporates dark elements of literacy through the guilt of a murder. Which became forced out by the hypothetical beating of a heart.

Both of these tales have a narrator that gave ambiguous and shallow reason for their murders. In the Tell-Tale-Heart, it is the old man 's “eye of vulture” (1) that terrified him. The narrator liked the old man, but his eye disturbed him deeply that made him to commit the crime.

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.

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.

One of the theme’s more prevalent themes that present it’s self in the Tell-Tale Heart the theme of is insane verses sane. This theme is one of the central themes in the story. You can see this in the first sentence of the story in which the person says “True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad” (Poe, 331). The more the man tries to convince the people he is retelling the story that he is sane the more it shows how very much insane he actually is. When he tells the story of the old man that he murdered he tells it calmly and remorseless. He states in his retelling that he did not hate the old man or that he wanted the old man’s wealth when he murdered him. He says the reason he murdered the old man is that his one eye which was pale with a film over it resembled an eye of a vulture. (Poe, 331) Then he says “Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you

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.

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe the student becomes obsessively pushing his need for self-torture to the extreme. To become more sorrow, he calls for the bird to hear only one response to become morself-tortured.

A third similarity is that both the victims were murdered in their own homes. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the old man was murdered in his bedroom in the middle of the night (Poe

The “Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Monkey’s Paw” both convey suspicion and growing fear of what will happen “The Monkey’s Paw” is about a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes, but in the worst way. The “Tell-Tale Heart” is about a man who murders an old man, but his guilty conscience betrayed him by making him hear the old man’s heart after he died. "The Monkey's Paw" creates suspense through a slow paced timeline, and "The Tell-Tale Heart" creates suspense throughout the plot, the murder, and finally the heart beating after death causing him to surrender and confess.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be one of the greatest American writers of all time. His writing is dark and sinister. He wrote of death, murder, psychosis, and obsession. One could only imagine what would bring a person to write such morbid stories. Perhaps, it may be attributed to Poe’s childhood, a past that was sad and far from average. Both of his parents died when he was only three years of age (Shelley). The death of his parents caused a separation from his siblings and he moved to live with his relatives (Shelley). In later years, Poe endured poverty and the loss of his wife-to-be to another man (Clark). Possibly, without those troubling experiences, Poe couldn’t have imagined such eerie and enthralling tales. Some of his most

The narrator in “Tell-Tale Heart” is unreliable because he is mentally ill. According to the text on page 1 paragraph 1 the narrator states “But why will you say i am mad?” He explains how he “isn’t mad” but then proceeds to talk about how much he hates his roommate because his eye looked like the vulture's eye also referred to as the “evil eye”. Later on in the story on the last few pages, he tells us how he hid the poor old man’s body under the wooden planks “I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber…”(Poe 4). Who puts the body of someone under the wooden floor where they live? The smell would just be awful. The narrator definitely is insane and needs to get help. On the same page, the narrator then describes how he cut up the different limbs of the old man's body. “I cut off the head and the arms and the legs”(Poe 4). He cut up the old man's body and scattered them all under the wooden plank and then proceeded to lie to the police when they arrived at his house. He then confronted himself to the police when they were exiting his house. Some may say that he was just angry or under the influence. But in reality you have to be insane to kill somebody just because of one imperfection that one human being dislikes. Overall, in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator is mentally insane and doesn’t know how to cope with his anger. The narrator is unreliable and you cannot trust everything that he tells you.

Like many of Edgar Allen Poe's works, The Tell-Tale Heart is a dark story. This story focuses on the events leading to the death of an old man, as the sanity of his killer crumbles. Poe uses irony and first-person perspective to show a sense of paranoia within the story.