Compare And Contrast The Tale Tell Heart And The Cask Of Amontillado

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What drives a person to kill? The Cask of amontillado and the Tale Tell Heart are both written by the famous writer Edgar Allan Poe and both deal with murder. The Tale Tell Heart and Cask of Amontillado have similarities and differences such as Author,anger and confession.
They both have things in common. In the tale tell heart the narrator heard the door ring when he was putting the man under the floorboards he got so scared he said “As the bell sounded the hour there came a knocking at the street door i went down to open it with a light heart for what had i now to fear there entered three men who introduced themselves with perfect suavity as officers of the police a shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night”. This quote explains

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