“How do you show someone real love when you don’t know what it feel like” (Dexter). Two stories “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, and Dexter by Jeff Lansing both depict characters that have conflicting emotions caused by insanity. In “The Tell Tale Heart”, the main character is insane; this drives him to kill a man. After he is finished he makes sure there is no evidence. But when the police come he is overcome with a ringing noise in his head that pushes him past the edge and he snaps, telling the police that he is guilty. In Dexter the main character Dexter is a serial killer who was mentally damaged at a young age when he witnessed his mom being brutally murdered with a chainsaw. This causes him to not have any emotions, all he feels
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Poe gives into his insanity; he kills a man by suffocating him with a mattress. Then he proceeds to cut the man into pieces and put the individual parts under different floorboards. Unfortunately the police heard a report that a scream came from his house. When the police came he ended up turning himself over because he was overcome with grief. Poe said, “villains! I shrieked, “Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — Here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 306). This quote indicates that because the character has become over come with grief because he gave into his insanity. This shows that because he gave into insanity he killed a man and went to jail. In comparison Dexter gives into his insanity and kills multiple people without being caught. In the show Dexter kills people and dumps their bodies in the river so that they are taken down stream out into the gulf where they will never be found. Dexter says, “There are no secrets, just undiscovered truths”(Dexter). This is ironic because divers discover this way of disposal, and the Miami Police Department launches a full on investigation with Dexter helping lead it. This shows that by Dexter giving in and killing people has exposed him to a chance of discovery. The actions of these two characters are directly related to their outcomes of their
Poe gives into his insanity; he kills a man by suffocating him with a mattress. Then he proceeds to cut the man into pieces and put the individual parts under different floorboards. Unfortunately the police heard a report that a scream came from his house. When the police came he ended up turning himself over because he was overcome with grief. Poe said, “villains! I shrieked, “Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — Here, here! — it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe 306). This quote indicates that because the character has become over come with grief because he gave into his insanity. This shows that because he gave into insanity he killed a man and went to jail. In comparison Dexter gives into his insanity and kills multiple people without being caught. In the show Dexter kills people and dumps their bodies in the river so that they are taken down stream out into the gulf where they will never be found. Dexter says, “There are no secrets, just undiscovered truths”(Dexter). This is ironic because divers discover this way of disposal, and the Miami Police Department launches a full on investigation with Dexter helping lead it. This shows that by Dexter giving in and killing people has exposed him to a chance of discovery. The actions of these two characters are directly related to their outcomes of their