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Comparing The Tell Tale Heart And Landlady's The Tell-Tale Heart

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Who is the most evil villain, between the Tell tale Heart and the LandLady, I would go with the tell tale heart . In the tell tale heart there are a couple peices evidence that claim the young killer was crazy or mentally mad. In the first paragraph he says “the disease have sharpened my sense not to destroy not dulled them”. Another thing he said was,“I'Ve heard all things in the heaven and in the Earth. I heard many things in hell”. “How, then,am I mad”? Then in paragraph he said “ I was never kinder to the old man the week before I killed him”. He also said “every night before midnight i'll open the door just a little and look at him sleeping and i'll stare at him for a while”. In the story I feel like the creepy young man was really

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