Comparing The Black Cat And The Tell-Tale Heart

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The relationship between the black cat and The Tale-tell Heart, there is definitely similarities with these short stories because both narrators claim their sanity and then contradicts themselves by acting unusual and bizarre.The Tale-Tell Heart seems to focus more on his sanity and the “Evil eye”. Both the Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat have the theme of insanity, most of his stories are also told in first person The Tell Tale Heart is about a man being disturbed by an eye, the eye of the old man is harmless but drives the narrator mad and the eye seems to be a problem. Then the old man’s body is hidden within the house and hidden from police and eventually the narrator claims insanity with the heart beating faster and louder.

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