"Tell-Tale Heart" and "Sweeney Todd" Literary Analysis One of the many themes of "Tell-Tale Heart" is psychological obsession. This ties into the Tim Burton movie, “Sweeney Todd”. In "Tell-Tale Heart", the main character tries to convince the reader of his sanity after just killing an old man out of paranoia. He struggles with an internal conflict and obsession over the old man's blue- gray eye. He struggles with this fixation throughout the short story. Both stories are based around the main characters psychological obsession and where it leads them.
The main character defends his sanity after killing an old man. “True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”(Poe, p331). His reasoning for killing the old man is delusional and strange, he describes his motivation as fear of the old man's pale blue eye. One night while watching the old man sleep, he hears a loud thumping noise that he assumes ids the old man's heart. This symbolizes the narrator’s madness and insanity. Paranoid that the neighbors might hear the loud …show more content…
Both take place in the same time period and both have an uneasy tone and mood about them. Both produced by authors/film producers who have a dark sense of style with all of their work. Tim Burton is known for his dark and creepy style throughout all of his famous works. Examples of these are Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which all show and display his dark, creepy style. Combining fantasy and horror, Tim Burton creates mysterious and dark styles throughout his works, similar to Poe. Poe also creates dark and creepy moods/tones in his pieces. As well as Burton, most of Poe’s pieces have a gothic and sinister style, having to do with death, love, insanity, and murder. Both authors/film producers are very similar in their dark and sinister writing
The main character defends his sanity after killing an old man. “True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”(Poe, p331). His reasoning for killing the old man is delusional and strange, he describes his motivation as fear of the old man's pale blue eye. One night while watching the old man sleep, he hears a loud thumping noise that he assumes ids the old man's heart. This symbolizes the narrator’s madness and insanity. Paranoid that the neighbors might hear the loud …show more content…
Both take place in the same time period and both have an uneasy tone and mood about them. Both produced by authors/film producers who have a dark sense of style with all of their work. Tim Burton is known for his dark and creepy style throughout all of his famous works. Examples of these are Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, which all show and display his dark, creepy style. Combining fantasy and horror, Tim Burton creates mysterious and dark styles throughout his works, similar to Poe. Poe also creates dark and creepy moods/tones in his pieces. As well as Burton, most of Poe’s pieces have a gothic and sinister style, having to do with death, love, insanity, and murder. Both authors/film producers are very similar in their dark and sinister writing