Comparing The Black Cat And The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell Tale Heart is about a man who describes himself saying, “But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say I am mad? Can you not see that I have full control of my mind?” (Poe, 64). The narrator is trying to let us know that he isn’t mad, just a little nervous.

Edgar Allan Poe made sure the reader knew more than the secondary character in his short story to build suspense. For the entire week before he murdered the old man, the main character crept into his bedroom every night, and observed the man while he slept. “I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed… He was still sitting up in the bed, listening;--just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.” From the beginning, the audience knew the man would be murdered, and the suspense built from this knowledge.

The old man did nothing against him, but the sight of the vulture eye caused him to turn into a killer. After killing the old man, he can hear the heart beat of the old man still beating “ louder-louder-louder!” (45). Louder empathizes the heartbeat he was hearing from the floorboards, where the old man is rested. However, the use of “louder” (45) several times and the italicized “louder” (45) contribute to the growing guilt of the narrator.

Edgar Allan Poe is said to be one of the original authors of the Detective Story and a master of the Macabre (Gordon, Silverman, and Kellogg). Stephen king has cited Poe as one of his biggest inspirations in his writing. King grew up reading many of Poe’s short stories in his free time ("Comparison of the Live and Work of E. A. Poe and Stephen King"). Growing up, King had many night terrors and thoughts of monsters in his head. He used the inspiration and style of Poe’s work, plus the monsters he had created in his head to write his novels.

A man cannot live his life knowing that he has committed a deed that had caused guilt in his mind and his heart. “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, is a story, and it is about a young adult who is scared not by the Old Man, but by the eye, that the Old Man has. He describes the eye as a vultures eye, and the eye has bothered him a lot. He has tried to kill the man because of his devilish eye, and goes to his house every midnight and tries to kill him, once he did kill the man, he got a knock on the door by the officers who suspected him of killing the man but he slowly rejected that idea, but the guilt of him killing the man ended up swallowing him into misery. “I can stand him no longer” by Raphael Dumas, is a poem about how a man hates another man, so much, that it is driving him insane.

Also, both stories end in guilt overcoming them and they both end up giving themselves away to the police. In “The Tell-Tale-Heart” The main character seems get crazier as the story goes on, for example the longer the old man with the strange eye lives the more the main character wants to kill him, and everything he does starts to bug him more. This event is also

The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a story based on the gothic fiction novel. The name of the narrator is unknown and is never found out. The narrator continues to tell his story of murdering an old man. The narrator loved the old man and did not have anything against the man besides his blue eye. For seven nights, the narrator would visit the old man while he was asleep and the narrator would watch him quietly.

As the literary elements are not just some coincidence that is shown between the writings of these stories and poem. This bridges the relationship between the writers and their works of art but, even with all the similarities it always comes with differences. This is shown in each book with the way they show the gothic element. As The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very upfront about its elements while in Frankenstein has the deeper meaning. Also in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, you had to read between the lines to understand the meanings.

The conscience hearts Someone who is insane shows his behaviors or actions that does not make logical sense. You need a link between the narrator 's insanity. In Edgar Allan Poe 's "The Tell-Tale Heart" we hear a retelling the narrator 's action to murdering the old man. Through these actions I learned that the narrator had a sensitivity issue towards the old man 's eye. Poe creates an unreliable narrator because the narrator presents his sensitivity and obsession with details as proof of clarity of his sanity, and the narrators obsession shows his madness.

The servant loved the old man but could not take his eye, so one day he decided that he would kill the old man. For seven days just at midnight the servant would take an hour to creep in and shin a thin ray of light on the old man’s eye. Then on the 8th night the old man woke up and was frightened by the light, but the servant stood completely still and when he thought that old man went back to sleep the servant suffocated him with the sheet. Once dead the servant chopped up the old man and placed him under the floor boards. The next morning a neighbor had complained about a scream and the police showed up.

Insane asylums are usually creepy, especially for a young man who is very rarely in the setting. In the story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is a mad man who lives in a group home. He is driven crazy by an old man’s eye, so much that he kills, dismembers, and hides him. The character is so confident in his crime that he invites investigating officers into the old man’s room to talk about the reason they were sent over. The character begins to feel the emotions of guilt, like hearing a strange noise, sweating, swearing, throwing things, imagining pretend things, until he finally shouts, “Villains, dissemble no more!

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” is a gothic story about a man’s sanity. The Narrator believes that sanity, and other’s thinking that he is sane, is very important. But his obsession with this idea of sanity, is what makes him stand out for his insanity. Bloom says,“’The Tell-Tale Heart’ is a breathless, frightening monologue of the disintegration of consciousness and conscience under the onslaught of obsession.” Because this story is written in the first person point of view, the reader gets a look inside the Narrator’s mind.

Death, love, darkness, betrayal, greed, and cruelty are all themes that Edgar Allen Poe use in his stories. He uses these themes with different settings and characters, which all relate. The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat are two of Poe’s stories that have different settings and characters but have the same themes. Edgar Allen Poe was a nineteenth century author who wrote stories. His stories were full of mystery, suspense and horror.

“The old man’s hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. . . In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” (Poe 17-18). In his horrific short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe writes about fear and infatuation. Because the nameless narrator fears the old man’s eye, obsession begins to grow with his horror.