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This 3 page paper compares two of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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still scare readers with their intensity. This paper compares two of his short stories, "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" with regard to their themes and the literary devices
(plot, setting, tone, etc.) that Poe uses to create his atmosphere of horror. Discussion The stories are remarkably similar in their overall construction. They are narrated in the first person
("I"); the narrators are obviously mad; and they have both committed murder for which they will be hanged. And they both reassure the reader, in different ways, that theyre really
quite sane. In "The Black Cat," the narrator begins by saying that he would be made if he expected people to believe his story, "Yet, mad am I not"
(Poe). In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator says "... nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" (Poe). The immediate effect of statements
like these is to assure the reader that the speaker is indeed insane. The stories they tell bear out this conclusion. The stories are similar in another way as well:
they build gradually to such a point of tension that the narrator then feels compelled to act; they are stories of obsession, in fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator
tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained these characteristics as he grew to adulthood (Poe). But then he began to
drink, and he changed into a cruel and vicious person (Poe). We learn that he and his wife had a number of pets including a dog, rabbits, birds, gold-fish and
a monkey, but his favorite pet was a huge black cat named Pluto (Poe). The cat adored the man, followed him everywhere, and the two were inseparable (Poe). But as
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