Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic style of short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death” are two stories with insane protagonists that are motivated by the setting and their selfishness and both of these stories share the same tone and they share the same themes of time, death, sin, guilt, irony, fear, and disease. Both of these stories are very comparable and they have many similarities.
The First comparison between the “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of The Red Death“ is the protagonists. In Poe’s Masque Of the Red Death, the main character Prospero doesn’t care for the townspeople and is more concerned about saving himself from the red death and leaves his townspeople to be killed by it. He took the threat of the Red …show more content…
In both stories, death takes innocent victims. The narrator kills the old man in “The Tell-Tale Heart” because of his supposedly evil eye. The people in “The Masque of the Red Death” are dying from a plague. The deaths have something else in common: murder. The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" is the killer, and he explains in the telling of his story how he felt no ill will toward the old man, but how it was the old man's pale eye that caused his anger. Later, he reflects on how meticulously he goes about entering the old man's room, planning the murder. He explains that he was standing in the old man's room for seven days. Prince Prospero, in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death, goes to great lengths to ensure that death will not find him. He orders that the gates are welded shut. Prince Prospero also, "had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were actors, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, and there was wine. All these and security were within." It was the great detail that each character took to rid themselves of their horrors, that they create in themselves a confidence, which leads them to falsely assume that they are safe from
The First comparison between the “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of The Red Death“ is the protagonists. In Poe’s Masque Of the Red Death, the main character Prospero doesn’t care for the townspeople and is more concerned about saving himself from the red death and leaves his townspeople to be killed by it. He took the threat of the Red …show more content…
In both stories, death takes innocent victims. The narrator kills the old man in “The Tell-Tale Heart” because of his supposedly evil eye. The people in “The Masque of the Red Death” are dying from a plague. The deaths have something else in common: murder. The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" is the killer, and he explains in the telling of his story how he felt no ill will toward the old man, but how it was the old man's pale eye that caused his anger. Later, he reflects on how meticulously he goes about entering the old man's room, planning the murder. He explains that he was standing in the old man's room for seven days. Prince Prospero, in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death, goes to great lengths to ensure that death will not find him. He orders that the gates are welded shut. Prince Prospero also, "had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were actors, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, and there was wine. All these and security were within." It was the great detail that each character took to rid themselves of their horrors, that they create in themselves a confidence, which leads them to falsely assume that they are safe from