If these were told in a third person omniscient point of view, then it would not have been nearly as twisted as it was originally told which is in first person perspective. First person point of view is often regarded as being biased since the reader is only seeing the story through the eyes of one character. On the contrary, this point of view allows the reader to understand the narrator’s emotions, thought process, and in this case, psychological state. In “The Black Cat” he states, “I neither expect nor solicit belief…Yet mad am I not” (Poe 1). He is stating that he does not expect the reader to believe what he is about to tell them and that he not crazy. Similarly he states in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “but why will you say that I am mad?...How, then, am I mad? Hearken! And observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story” (Poe 1). At the beginning of both stories it is clear that the narrator is a lunatic. He attempts to convince the reader that he is not crazy by repeating that he is not
If these were told in a third person omniscient point of view, then it would not have been nearly as twisted as it was originally told which is in first person perspective. First person point of view is often regarded as being biased since the reader is only seeing the story through the eyes of one character. On the contrary, this point of view allows the reader to understand the narrator’s emotions, thought process, and in this case, psychological state. In “The Black Cat” he states, “I neither expect nor solicit belief…Yet mad am I not” (Poe 1). He is stating that he does not expect the reader to believe what he is about to tell them and that he not crazy. Similarly he states in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “but why will you say that I am mad?...How, then, am I mad? Hearken! And observe how healthily –how calmly I can tell you the whole story” (Poe 1). At the beginning of both stories it is clear that the narrator is a lunatic. He attempts to convince the reader that he is not crazy by repeating that he is not