Comparing Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart And Masque Of Red Death

he had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue with film over it. ”The narrator kills the man because his eye was vulture, which means the anticipation of the

Throughout “Tell Tale Heart” and “Ministers Black Veil”, both Poe and Hawthorne use symbolism to show they cannot hide from their sins. To show Poe cannot hide from his sins, he uses the old man's eye as a symbol. The reason the eye creates this symbolism, is because although it has a blue, hughey film over it, he cannot stop seeing it. Every night when Poe opens the old man's door, the light shines upon the vulture eye, which always seems to be open. The pale blue film, also demonstrates Poes inability to see clearly; in this case representing Poe trying not to acknowledge his own sins.

“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.” This is said by the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Once evil enters the mind and is welcomed and given permission to rule, it will control and direct one's actions. The theme in both “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque Of Red Death” is death, whether it be intentional by humans or inevitable because of mortality. The similarities and differences in these stories are they both have death that kills innocent people, one story is more realistic and the other symbolizes death, and lastly both stories have people imagining something.

Another example of symbolism is, “Putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a cloak closely about my person” (pg. 2). The black silk represents the darkness and horrid effect of this story. It also adds mystery to the mood. Poe also uses vivid sensory details to craft his

I believe that the narrators from all three Edgar Allen Poe stories, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Tell Tale Heart”, were all horrible in their own unique ways. If I had to choose one narrator that stood out to me by being horrifying it would be from “The Black Cat” The narrator is horrifying because he explains that he really isn’t crazy, he stabbed Pluto in the eye, and because he was so content after killing his wife. The narrator is horrifying because he has to explain that he isn’t really crazy. When you have to explain that you’re not crazy to someone that normally means that you are probably crazy.

In the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart'' by Edgar Allan Poe, the mood is sinister, and the author uses the craft moves symbolism and revealing actions. In the beginning of the story, Poe uses symbolism to illustrate what the killer’s motive was behind. The symbol in this story is the old man’s pale blue eye which resembled a vulture's eye. The old man's eye made the madmen want to kill him. Every time he looked at it he would go cold and have goosebumps run down his spine.

In Poe’s stories, the main characters experience fear, but they all handle it distinctively. Poe uses irony, symbolism, and imagery to show how fear affects the narrator’s mindset, along with their future.     In “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of Red Death”, the main characters try to isolate themselves from evil, but Poe uses irony to show that death is inevitable.

Suspense and feeling are used in every story and are created by cause and effect relationships. In the Tell-Tale Heart and Monkey’s Paw they both wish for something. But in both stories the wishes cause a effect. Edgar Allen Poe and W. W. Jacobs uses the Cause and Effect relationship in their stories to create the suspense.

While this may be the case, many people may think he was fully aware of what he was doing. This can be proven wrong because the narrator states, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me... I think it was his eye yes, it was this!”(2).This quote reveals that it was not the old man at all that had made him want to murder him, it was his eye that was his motivation.

The narrator's obsession with the eye of the old man is what drives him to commit the murder. This obsession is a metaphor for the darker parts of human nature and how they can consume us. The narrator's obsession with the eye is a reflection of his own inner demons and how they can take over our lives. He blames his reasoning for the murder on the old man’s eye as if to justify his

The way Poe sets up his story with the tension could create a fearful atmosphere. He did not just focus on portraying a narrator with a certain fear, he would use language that would make the reader feel fear. He packed in images of darkness and horror in order to create these atmospheres that presented fear in many different ways. Poe being known as a master of the horror

For example, in the text “The The-Tale Heart”, Poe’s use of the old man’s eye symbolized the obsessions and fears of the narrator like, “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood

The man says, “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing.” Tying in with the arrogant tones as well, the man has a very dark mind and the readers get a glimpse of his thought train through first person. He explains he needs to “take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” No sane person would kill over a color of an eye, but as he describes the old man’s eye, the audience begins to understand why he takes the life of the old man.

The scary tone has a trend through all of his stories which makes the reader more engaged. In “The Tell Tale Heart” Poe talks about death and how an eye viewed as, “an evil eye” could cause someone to kill. It took some time, but Poe lead the whole story up to the gruesome murder scene. “First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and then the legs.

No sane person would think of doing such a thing, they would just avoid seeing the old man. Instead, the narrator chooses to kill the old man which does not make sense to the average, but to him, this is the only way to relieve himself of the eye. As the narrator craziness increases throughout the story, one can see how the eye of the old