Edgar Allan Poe is a world-renowned writer, poet and critic, but his writing style is far from the norm. Edgar Allen Poe’s sad life allowed him to write his short stories with the first-hand sadness he experienced. Poe’s writing style through many of his short stories can be described as macabre.They included a lot of sorrow, death, hate, dead coming back to life and fear. Two of his most famous stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” are plagued with all of the famous typical characteristics of any Poe short story and have many similarities and differences with themes, views and motifs. “The Black Cat” is a typically dark and evil story by Poe. “The Black Cat” possesses an unreliable borderline insane narrator that is stricken with paranoia. The unnamed narrator in this story explains the story to us in his limited first person view from his holding cell which he faces the death penalty the following day. Mostly all of Poe 's short stories possess this first person limited omission viewpoint which makes the story really unreliable and biased. There is significant proof that the narrator of this story is insane. Because after the narrator kills his cat he starts getting paranoid about his second cat after a series of mysterious events like his house begin burned down on the night he hung his cat. Another mysterious event is all the neighbors gathering around a lone standing wall with an impression of a huge hung cat which haunts the narrator greatly. The mysterious occurrences that spooked the narrator the most is when he encountered a mysterious cat he never seen before with a but with a splash of white fur. The narrator comes to the realization that the cat is avenging pluto’s death. One day he loses it one day and he tries to kill the second cat because he believes it 's causing him his troubles. The narrator 's wife was holding the cat while he tried to kill him and she ended up being the victim. “The degree of that complete separation is further signified by the narrator 's very calm and inhuman response to the murderous act: he sets about "with entire deliberation, to the task" of cleaning up his bloody mess, as if he were washing dishes after a quiet dinner at home” ( BADENHAUSEN). This described the insane physiological mentality of the narrator after all that occurred. The horror classic “The Black Cat” theme’s range from so many different ones depending on the reader 's view, but one of them is a classic evil transformation. For the young loving couple, both whom adore animals and have lots of them over time, very sinister things happen and domestic violence starts occurring and eventually murder. The unnamed narrator with an unstable psychological state of mind writes about his experiences and the destruction he causes from his prison cell. His story is gruesome and inflicts fear into most readers. Fear is exactly what Poe tries to inflict to the reader with the presence of hatred, abhorrence and death. All these events have a psychological origin. Poe is greatly interested in the clinical representation of mental excitement, especially, as Robert L. Carringer argues, "those forms of terror
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One of the main differences is where the anger is directed to. In “The Tell Tale Heart” the anger is clearly directed to one object it begin the eye of the old man. The eye troubles the narrator so much that he is willing to kill a person he has a good relationship for something that bugged him. In “The Black Cat” the anger is set toward the cats ,which he never had any problems with until he decided the gruesomely kill one. The rest of the hatred come from the narrator trying to get even with the other cat for messing with his life. The motive for the killings is another of the big differences between the stories. In “The Black Cat” there was never an intent to kill it just spontaneously happen , and because of this the narrator 's wife ended up being calatorul. In “The Tell Tale Heart” The murder was premeditated because growing hate for the old man’s eye grew larger within the
One of the main differences is where the anger is directed to. In “The Tell Tale Heart” the anger is clearly directed to one object it begin the eye of the old man. The eye troubles the narrator so much that he is willing to kill a person he has a good relationship for something that bugged him. In “The Black Cat” the anger is set toward the cats ,which he never had any problems with until he decided the gruesomely kill one. The rest of the hatred come from the narrator trying to get even with the other cat for messing with his life. The motive for the killings is another of the big differences between the stories. In “The Black Cat” there was never an intent to kill it just spontaneously happen , and because of this the narrator 's wife ended up being calatorul. In “The Tell Tale Heart” The murder was premeditated because growing hate for the old man’s eye grew larger within the