The Black Cat And The Tell Tale Heart Analysis

Edgar Allan Poe is a world-renowned writer, poet and critic, but his writing style is far from the norm. Edgar Allen Poe’s sad life allowed him to write his short stories with the first-hand sadness he experienced. Poe’s writing style through many of his short stories can be described as macabre.They included a lot of sorrow, death, hate, dead coming back to life and fear. Two of his most famous stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” are plagued with all of the famous typical characteristics of any Poe short story and have many similarities and differences with themes, views and motifs. “The Black Cat” is a typically dark and evil story by Poe. “The Black Cat” possesses an unreliable borderline insane narrator that is stricken with paranoia. The unnamed narrator in this story explains the story to us in his limited first person view from his holding cell which he faces the death penalty the following day. Mostly all of Poe 's short stories possess …show more content…
One of the main differences is where the anger is directed to. In “The Tell Tale Heart” the anger is clearly directed to one object it begin the eye of the old man. The eye troubles the narrator so much that he is willing to kill a person he has a good relationship for something that bugged him. In “The Black Cat” the anger is set toward the cats ,which he never had any problems with until he decided the gruesomely kill one. The rest of the hatred come from the narrator trying to get even with the other cat for messing with his life. The motive for the killings is another of the big differences between the stories. In “The Black Cat” there was never an intent to kill it just spontaneously happen , and because of this the narrator 's wife ended up being calatorul. In “The Tell Tale Heart” The murder was premeditated because growing hate for the old man’s eye grew larger within the