If you have read the short stories The Tell Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, you might wonder what are some of the similarities between them. Will they were both written by Edgar Allan Poe. Both of the stories had the deaths of main characters. Also one person from each story went mad. In both stories insanity decides how the story ends.
People close to Edgar Allan Poe died for example his wife and mother. To top it off he might have been there as a young child when his mother died. As you could imagine this was most likely traumatizing for him. Poe wrote about common fears of his time. For instance being buried alive which is shown in the House of Usher.
In the Tell Tale Heart the narrator killed a man who had a pale eye.
People close to Edgar Allan Poe died for example his wife and mother. To top it off he might have been there as a young child when his mother died. As you could imagine this was most likely traumatizing for him. Poe wrote about common fears of his time. For instance being buried alive which is shown in the House of Usher.
In the Tell Tale Heart the narrator killed a man who had a pale eye.