Tell Tale Heart & Black Cat

In Tell Tale Heart, there is a man who is crazy but thinks he isn't and he insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye. He thinks his eye is evil because it has cataracts. The murder was carefully planned and covered up well. The murderer hides the body by cutting it into pieces and hiding it under the floorboards. In The Black Cat, there is a man who is feeling guilty after the murder of his beloved black cat, Pluto, so he adopts another cat but he cannot escape his guilt or violent tendencies. He is a big alcoholic too and he is also really crazy. At the end the narrator hangs his beloved black cat Pluto. The Black Cat and The Tell Tale Heart share similar themes and characteristics about the main characters, and settings.

One major theme in Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat is violence. In Tell Tale Heart the man is so violent towards the old man, and the man in Black Cat is also violent towards his cats. Another theme is guilt. Both of the main characters felt so guilty after killing the man and the cat. They just had so much guilt and they tried to cover it up. They did a good job doing it too, but one thing slipped and they got caught. One more theme that they have in common is the darkness. Both of the story's have a lot of darkness and dramatic effect. They both talk about how they're going to kill their victim and hide it in gruesome details.

Both of the characters are actually really similar. Both of them think that they're not crazy even though they definitely are. They both kill something and try to cover it up. They also use a really creative way of covering up the bodies. In Tell Tale Heart, The narrator claims that he suffers from nervousness that causes an over-acuteness of the senses. This is the only explanation he gives for his motives and obsession with the old man's eye. The old man has a clouded, pale, blue eye, which is the only thing that the narrator describes about his appearance. The Black Cat is a story about a man who is in early life is known to be very peaceful and an animal loving person. The narrator is married and has many pets including birds, goldfish, a dog, rabbits a small monkey and a cat. The location of the house is unknown but we do know that the narrator, wife and animals live in a large house with a servant. Pluto is said to be to be the narrator's favorite pet and he alone took care of him and couldn't prevent the cat from following him anywhere. After several years the narrator shows that his behaviors are deteriorating and says he grows more irritable and moody. The narrator tells us the reason he is worsening is because he has alcohol abuse problems.

The setting in Tell Tale Heart is the house the narrator shares with the old man where the murder takes place and the location from which the narrator tells his story, presumably a prison or an asylum for the criminally insane. It's also really dark and not really somewhere a reader would have wanted to be. The Black Cat setting is very similar, it's also dark, scary, and unpleasant. They both took place in a house that was creepy and weird.

The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat are more similar than different because they both have the same themes, which are violence, guilt, and darkness. Also both of the characters are really similar to each other. They are both crazy, have unique minds, and know how to cover up a murder. In the setting both of the houses are really dark, gloomy, and a place that someone wouldn't want to go.

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