“The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”

Kaleb Clem Mrs. Winslow English II Honors 31 October 2012 The Tell-Tale Hearts The caustic quat par The Tell-Tale Hearts and The Black purify are two stories that share to a greater extent similarities than differences. The plots both start out the same with a main(prenominal) constituent whose actions throughout the story makes apparent to the reader his insanity and consume to trade with the internal and external dilemmas that are caused by the evil deeds, which both breathe to be involved with murder, due to the unstable state of the gentlemans conscience.The two stories keep back settings that are both strikingly similar. Both stories have a gothic, mysteriously dark setting. And both stories are set indoors the narrator and the main functions home however, The Black Cat had more than one setting. In The Black Cat the main natures house is burned down and so he is labored to get a new one. More details are presumption approximately this house than his earlier ho use or the home in The Tell Tale Heart. We are told that the house is old, unlike the first one, and non what he and the wife are used to.The story also tells about the cellar, being such an important setting the narrator tells us that the psychological confinement is increased and taping that gets into our deepest fears concerning home and life. The characters from The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat we see that for the most part, the stories are unbelievably alike. Both stories feature a man who is undoubtedly considered insane by the end of the story and who is the main character and policemen investigate under suspicion of murder. The Tell-Tale Heart also has a neighbor who plays a small role in the story and The Black Cat contains the mans wife, netherworld, and the second cat. The plot is almost hardly the same in both stories. Both stories feature a man who claims to be sane in the beginning although he proves to be otherwise later. The insanity in both characters diffe rs. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the man just seems to have a mental condition of sorts. In The Black Cat, however, the main character is a raging alcoholic, which seems to be the main cause for his abnormal and malefic behavior, like when he cut out Plutos eye. Pluto never did anything wrong, but the man was intoxicated. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat were real similar. They had almost the same plot. The settings in the stories were much in common, and both plots feature gothic elements with large houses and lack of character variety.