The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado both tell of murderers and their crimes. Edgar Allan Poe writes of the properties of the killers. Though different victims, and different times. Calm, crazy, organized, and unplanned. Read what is the same and what isn't between the characters from the stories from the mind of Edgar Allen Poe.
Montresor, from The Cask of Amontillado, is a calm and collected character. While the Caretaker from The Tell-Tale Heart is crazy. As such, Montresor knows the game to play with Fortunato. He praises Fortunato to get him feeling prideful. Montresor avoids questioning and suspicion by doing so. "My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day." In The Tell-Tale …show more content…
For example, they both knew their victims, and they struck with the intent to kill. They also both held a grudge against whom they murdered. As such Montresor had stated, "The thousand injures of Fortunato I had borne.... I vowed revenge." In his mind, revenge for what Fortunato did was his death. Now in The Tell-Tale Heart, The Caretaker had something against the watchful eye of an old man. As stated, "..looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back..." In the Caretaker's words he describes the amount of judgment that he felt and he hated it and wanted to rid of it. Though different motives, Montresor and The Caretaker struck wanting to redeem themselves. Perhaps they got satisfaction, or not. As well as this they both did not except such outcomes. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor wanted, needed to hear Fortunato beg for forgiveness. "But to these words I hearkened in vain for a reply.." Still, in the Tell-Tale Heart the Caretaker states he hasn't a thing to be afraid of, but he got degraded. He was frantic for the police to be gone as he may be to himself, yet to their staying he spat out a confession. "..They heard! -they suspected! - they knew!..." The two of them never excepted such outcomes and wanted not to be
Montresor, from The Cask of Amontillado, is a calm and collected character. While the Caretaker from The Tell-Tale Heart is crazy. As such, Montresor knows the game to play with Fortunato. He praises Fortunato to get him feeling prideful. Montresor avoids questioning and suspicion by doing so. "My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking to-day." In The Tell-Tale …show more content…
For example, they both knew their victims, and they struck with the intent to kill. They also both held a grudge against whom they murdered. As such Montresor had stated, "The thousand injures of Fortunato I had borne.... I vowed revenge." In his mind, revenge for what Fortunato did was his death. Now in The Tell-Tale Heart, The Caretaker had something against the watchful eye of an old man. As stated, "..looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back..." In the Caretaker's words he describes the amount of judgment that he felt and he hated it and wanted to rid of it. Though different motives, Montresor and The Caretaker struck wanting to redeem themselves. Perhaps they got satisfaction, or not. As well as this they both did not except such outcomes. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor wanted, needed to hear Fortunato beg for forgiveness. "But to these words I hearkened in vain for a reply.." Still, in the Tell-Tale Heart the Caretaker states he hasn't a thing to be afraid of, but he got degraded. He was frantic for the police to be gone as he may be to himself, yet to their staying he spat out a confession. "..They heard! -they suspected! - they knew!..." The two of them never excepted such outcomes and wanted not to be