The Masque Of The Wild Character Analysis

“Conflict builds character,” as often said by authors, readers, and others alike-- but perhaps some authors build character through the use of conflict better than others, like Edgar Allan Poe (author of many, many short stories and poems but for the sake of this essay, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death”) and Jack London (the author of Call of the Wild), for example. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is the story of a man who kills another, due to being bothered by the the other’s defected eye; “The Masque of the Red Death,” on the other hand, is a story about a prince who leaves his people to fend for themselves when the land is plagued with disease by going into solitude. The Call of the Wild is the story of a dog, taken from his home during the Alaskan Gold Rush to work as a sled dog. Thus, through use …show more content…
Throughout the three stories chosen, the characters are subject to conflicts of different caliber-- some that they overcome and others that they succumb to. For one, in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the main character (or narrator of the story) is faced with the challenge of trying to keep the murder he’d committed (because of the victim’s “vulture eye,” which highly disturbed the narrator) under wraps and hidden from everyone in the outside world-- more specifically the police that arrive at his home not long after the murder is committed. He committed the murder and disposed of the body flawlessly, but the longer the police remained in his home, the more nervous he became (due to thinking