Dexter’s Tell Tale Heart: A Comparison
“How do you show someone real love when you don’t know what it feel like” (Dexter). Two stories “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, and Dexter by Jeff Lansing both depict characters that have conflicting emotions caused by insanity. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the main character is insane; this drives him to kill a man. After he is finished he makes sure there is no evidence. But when the police come he is overcome with a ringing noise in his head that pushes him past the edge and he snaps, telling the police that he is guilty. In Dexter, the main character, Dexter, is a serial killer who was mentally damaged at a young age when he witnessed his mom being brutally murdered with a chainsaw. This …show more content…
The grief that he is overcome with causes him to exclaim “villains! I shrieked, “Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — Here, here! — It is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 306). This quote is significant because it helps the reader to infer the outcome of what happens after the story; also it gives the readers a sense of how his insanity has driven him over the edge. Though Dexter is able to avoid capture longer than the character in “Tell Tale Heart” they both have unfortunate outcomes. In the season 8 finale Dexter decides that his insanity has taken him to far. He takes his boat out into a hurricane and allows himself and his boat to be destroyed by the treacherous storm. Before the gargantuan wave Dexter talks about how he has ruined the lives of everyone that he once held dear and that he was not going to let his dark passenger be the cause of any other destruction (Dexter). This is influential to the theme that allowing insanity to take over drives a person deeper into trouble. Dexter wants to right his wrongs but in order to do that it will cost him his life. The outcomes of these two stories may differ slightly, however they both strongly agree with the main
“How do you show someone real love when you don’t know what it feel like” (Dexter). Two stories “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, and Dexter by Jeff Lansing both depict characters that have conflicting emotions caused by insanity. In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the main character is insane; this drives him to kill a man. After he is finished he makes sure there is no evidence. But when the police come he is overcome with a ringing noise in his head that pushes him past the edge and he snaps, telling the police that he is guilty. In Dexter, the main character, Dexter, is a serial killer who was mentally damaged at a young age when he witnessed his mom being brutally murdered with a chainsaw. This …show more content…
The grief that he is overcome with causes him to exclaim “villains! I shrieked, “Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — Here, here! — It is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 306). This quote is significant because it helps the reader to infer the outcome of what happens after the story; also it gives the readers a sense of how his insanity has driven him over the edge. Though Dexter is able to avoid capture longer than the character in “Tell Tale Heart” they both have unfortunate outcomes. In the season 8 finale Dexter decides that his insanity has taken him to far. He takes his boat out into a hurricane and allows himself and his boat to be destroyed by the treacherous storm. Before the gargantuan wave Dexter talks about how he has ruined the lives of everyone that he once held dear and that he was not going to let his dark passenger be the cause of any other destruction (Dexter). This is influential to the theme that allowing insanity to take over drives a person deeper into trouble. Dexter wants to right his wrongs but in order to do that it will cost him his life. The outcomes of these two stories may differ slightly, however they both strongly agree with the main