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A 6 page paper which compares Edgar
Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" illustrating that the two stories
involve what Poe termed the "spirit of perverseness." The paper examines how both
narrators are trying to lay blame on something other than themselves for their inherent
personalities. Their attempt to blame, and kill, only comes back to haunt them.
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Page Count:
6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RApoecat.rtf
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of ones burden, to one degree or another (Anonymous Edgar Allan Poe 91.htm). In addition, most of his stories involve an individual who is forever haunted by that which they
wished to be rid of. In the stories "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" we see this theme presented in a very powerful sense. In the following paper
we examine both stories individually, focusing on the narrator and the theme of the story. The paper then presents a brief discussion as it relates to Poes characters needing to
be rid of something, but yet continuously being haunted by that something, even after it has been disposed of, presenting us with what Poe termed "spirit of perverseness." Tell
Tale Heart Interestingly enough, "The Tell-Tale Heart is a story about what has been called the demonic self -- a person who feels a compulsion to commit a gratuitous act
of evil. Poe wrote explicitly about what he calls this spirit of perverseness in his story The Black Cat, published in 1843, two years before The Tell-Tale Heart" (Anonymous The
Tell-Tale Heart telltale.htm). This act of evil, this focus on ridding oneself of something through expulsion of sorts, is clearly a reality in Poes work. And, the fact that
it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "spirit of perverseness." In the following we see a description of the many elements
in this story which further magnify the thesis presented, that being the story is one which involves hiding the perverseness and the haunting of guilt: "In addition to dramatizing the
spirit of perverseness in his narrative, Poe combines other elements of the gothic tale (the evil eye, the curse), the psychorealistic (the narrators paranoia), the dramatic (concentrated intensity of tone,
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