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A 5 page
paper which discusses and compares "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Cask of
Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of the short story from anecdote to art. He virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller" (Anonymous Edgar Allan Poe POE.HTM). All of Edgar Alan Poes work
is known for its use of all elements of writing in portraying incredible stories that often haunt the reader. He was skilled in every aspect of writing it seems, especially
in relationship to anything that was slightly obscure or eerie, which are also elements of the writer himself. His stories "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are
no exceptions to these conditions or realities. They are stories that present us with powerful images of revenge, and they are perhaps powerful due to the gruesome nature of murder,
and the vague position of the cause for revenge. They are almost stories that present many elements of writing that serve to illustrate many different effective methods of approach, as
well as illustrating the man himself. In the following paper we present an overview of such elements within the stories. The Tell Tale Heart In "The Tell-Tale Heart,"
in the opening paragraph, we are immediately provided with images of terror and of introspection that can only come from a man like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous
I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narrator tells us that "The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not
dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute" arguing that he heard everything (Poe NA). He then states, "Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell
you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and incredibly frightening and insane is soon to be presented. We know, from the start, that
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