Silence Of The Lambs Vs The Tell Tale Heart Research Paper

Consumed By Madness “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before” (Poe). What drives people to do insane acts? In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” the author Edgar Allan Poe writes about a man who is trying to prove that he is sane. The events throughout the story will convince the reader otherwise. There are a lot of similarities and differences between the story “The Tell Tale Heart” and the movie Silence of the Lambs. “The Tell Tale Heart” is about a man who goes insane because of a man who had a bad eye. Silence of the Lambs is about an FBI agent who uses a cannibalistic psychopath to help stop an unknown serial killer. “The Tell Tale Heart” written by Edgar Allan Poe and the movie Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Deem both show that obsession can lead people to insanity. There are similarities and differences between the characters, the plot, and the setting. …show more content…
The narrator is obsessed with the bad eye that the old man had. In the movie, the FBI agent is obsessed with catching the killer. These obsessions lead to different results in the end. The narrator from “The Tell Tale Heart” ends up killing an innocent man and in Silence of the Lambs the FBI agent ends up killing Buffalo Bill, who was the serial killer, all because Hannibal Lector guided her to catching him. People die in the end of both of the stories and the difference is one man was innocent and the other was killed by the FBI agent in her