“A Good Man is Hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor and “The Tell-Tale” by Edger Poe have several areas of contrast and similarity. One of the aspects that portray this relationship is the many contexts (Historic)and symbolism in which the stories were written, which explains how it impacted their creation and their featured themes. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is typical of the macabre themes for which Poe became popular. The book is part of the American Gothic Literature which was characteristic of the 19th Century and focused on the human existence through supernatural horror, madness, irrationality, and guilt. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” on the …show more content…
Both generations are depicted as imperfect. The grandmother is unknowingly racist; the children are unknowingly inconsiderate to their elders. O’Connor’s story opens on the Grandmother and her family, which is considering taking a trip to Florida. In contrast family, however, Grandmother would go to Tennessee. She appears her son a newspaper article that features an escaped convict (the Misfit), who is believed to be headed to Florida. Right from the very start, the grandmother takes on her more self-hypocritical …show more content…
The writer of story, Edgar Poe was a main contributor to the Dark Romantic scenes in literature in the mid-19th century. Such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. Dark Romantic advanced as a reply to the optimistic development which held the conviction that man could achieve a connection with nature. Poe and his friends trusted that man was more prone to sin and implosion as is confirm by the storyteller in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Dark Romantic additionally trusted the world was covered in secret and components of the supernatural were not common in the literature of the period; particularly in Poe’s