How to kill a man? How to create a horrible story? The paper will analyze the similarities and differences in “Click Clack and Rattle Bag” and “The Telltale Heart” in regard to their characters, tone and setting. The characters in two stories have similarities and differences, the characters are described distinctly. The characters in both of the stories tell the stories in the first person, and include many inner activities. In “Click Clack and Rattle Bag”, the man who is the hero of the story, describes his feelings all the time. “I felt responsible and adult.” “I was relieved when the boy said.” In the same way, the hero of the “The Telltale Heart” also have many psychological activities in the process of the story. “IT’S TRUE, yes, I have …show more content…
been ill, very ill. But why do you say that I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad?” “No!
They heard! I was certain of it.” The characters aren’t developed very much in both of the stories, however, their characteristics are different. The main characters in both of the short story are two people, but the protagonist is developed innocent and the antagonist is unrighteous in “Click Clack and Rattle Bag”, “I reached over and tousled his hair.” “I would have pulled away, then, if I could, but small, firm fingers pulled me forward, unrelentingly, into the dark.” show that the young man wants to take care of the kid, but the kid uses his good looks and tone and finally kills the man. And on the contrast, the …show more content…
protagonist of “The Telltale Heart” is evil and negative and the antagonist is good and pathetic. “I did not hate the old man; I even loved him. He had never hurt me.” I did not want his money. I think it was his eye. His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies, and then fall upon the dead body and pull it to pieces to eat it” The young man thinks the old man is a good person, but his purpose of killing him is to get the old man’s valuable eye, so the young man ignores the old man’s kind to him in order to satisfy himself. The boy in “Click Clack and Rattle bag” doesn’t mention he want to kill the man until near the end of the story, the man feels strange and the readers can speculate the boy’s purpose of telling the strange and horrible story to the man. “I would have pulled away, then, if I could, but small, firm fingers pulled me forward, unrelentingly, into the dark.” On the contrary, in “The Telltale Heart”, the young man mentions he want to kill the old man directly at the beginning of the story, he told the reader about his killing early. “And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever!” The tone in two short stories can show the characters’ characteristics a lot.
The tone of the protagonist in “Click Clack and Rattle Bag” is gentle and kind all the time, ‘ “I can understand that,” I said. “It is a very big old house.” ’ ‘ “I don’t,”I said, trying not to smile.’ , the reader can feel that the young man is good and grateful to take care of the kid. On the contrary, the tone of the protagonist in “The Telltale Heart” is exciting, evil and hypocritical, “why do you say that I am mad? Can you not see that I have full control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not mad?” “During all of that week I was as friendly to the old man as I could be, and warm, and loving.” “I was now sure of success.”, the reader can feel that the man change his tone of telling the story directly, at the beginning, he is excited about telling his feeling, and then, after he decides to kill the old man and plans to disguise, his tone is evil and hypocritical. Both of the stories describe a person kill another person, but the killers’ tones in these two stories are different. In “Click Clack and Rattle bag”, the killer is the boy, his tone at the beginning is “poor” because he wants to guide the young man to his room so that he can carry out his action(killing). , ‘ “Yes, actually I think you do. It’s because of, I’ve finished my homework, and so it’s my bedtime, and I am a bit scared. Not very scared. Just a bit.” ’ On the contrary, in “The Telltale Heart”, the tone of the killer is
exciting when he finished his “work”, “The time had come! I rushed into the room, crying, “Die! Die!” ’, the reader can feel the excitement of the character obviously. There’s also similarity between “Click Clack and Rattle Bag” and “The Telltale Heart”. The reader can feel the change of characters’ tone clearly during reading the two stories. In “Click Clack and Rattle Bag”, the young man’s tone changes gentle and kind ‘ “I don’t,” I said, trying not to smile.”to a bit worry and strange “I was relieved when the boy said, “They look like what you aren’t expecting. What you aren’t paying attention to.” ’. In the same way, in “The Telltale Heart”, the man’s tone changes calm and confident “And every morning I went to his room, and with a warm, friendly voice I asked him how he had slept.” to exciting “Yes. He was dead! Dead as a stone. His eye would trouble me no more!”. The settings of two short stories are also distinct to see. The setting of the environment of “Click Clack and Rattle Bag” and “The Telltale Heart” is similar. Both of them set the story happen in a dark house, and describe the interior environment. “We walked along the upper corridor in the shadows, walking from patch of moonlight to patch of moonlight. It really was a big house. I wished I had a flashlight.” “The darkness in his room was thick and black.” However, the setting of the character’s relationship of the two stories are different. In both of the short stories, there’s no relationship between two main characters. In “Click Clack and Rattle Bag”, the young man is the kid’s sister’s boyfriend, so he wants to take care of this kid when he stays with the kid in the house. On the contrary, in “The Telltale Heart”, although the old man is kind to the young man, the young man still has bad decision in order to satisfy his own benefits. Generally speaking, the short stories “ Click Clack and Rattle Bag” and “The Telltale Heart” show the readers two different stories of killing others, and they have similarities and differences in tone, setting and characters.
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Edgar Allen Poe’s structural choices in “The Tell-Tale Heart” affect our understanding of the narrator and his actions. An example of this is the way he presents the main character. The main character appears to be unstable, and he killed an old man because of one of his eyes, which the main character refers to as “the vulture eye”. In the story, the character is talking about the murder of the old man after it happened; he is not narrating the story at the exact moment that it happened. You can tell that he is talking about it after it happened because the narrator says “you”, meaning that he is talking to someone, and is telling them the story. For example, in the story he said, “You should have seen how wisely I proceeded—with what caution—with
The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado are two stories written by Edgar Allen Poe in the 18th century. Both of these stories are primarily focused on the mysterious and dark ways of the narrator. Since these stories were written by the same author, they tend to have several similarities such as the mood and narrative, but they also have a few differences. For instance, the characteristics of both narrators are different, but both stories portray the same idea of the narrator being obsessive over a certain thing.
The authors, Ambrose Bierce of 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and Edger Allan Poe of 'The Tell Tale Heart' have unique styles to pull the reader into the story. Both authors use unreliable narrator and imagery to allow the reader to picture and follow the narrator's way of thinking. In the Tell Tale Heart, the man is very repetitious and his psychotic behavior is what intrigues the overall dark madness of The Tell Tale Heart. In Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Bierce uses illusions to allow the reader to follow wherever his ideas lead which also intrigues the overall dark madness effect.
The narrators of both stories are reliable. The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” is reliable because he is telling a story about an event in his life he experienced first-hand. On the other hand, I feel he holds no creditability because he can’t see and accept himself as being a mad man. The narrator is disturbed by an old man’s eyes. The narrator shows this saying "I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!" (Poe 1). The old man’s eyes are described as being pale blue that has a film over it. The narrator discloses how the old man’s eyes made him feel cold. As a matter fact, the old man’s eyes frighten the narrator instilling fear for his life when he looks at them. The man
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To begin, In the Tale-Tell Heart is a story of a man who is a
The themes of “The Lottery and “The Tell-Tale Heart” have its similarities but minor differences. The stylistic techniques the authors use in each story contribute to their themes. Irony and symbolism help support the 2 different themes of each story. Both stories involve death but are looked at in different ways.
The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” has taken the time to meticulously plot. He sneaks nightly into the old man’s room preparing until he is ready to carry out his plans. His discontent lies...
Poe writes “The Tell Tale Heart” from the perspective of the murderer of the old man. When an author creates a situation where the central character tells his own account, the overall impact of the story is heightened. The narrator, in this story, adds to the overall effect of horror by continually stressing to the reader that he or she is not mad, and tries to convince us of that fact by how carefully this brutal crime was planned and executed. The point of view helps communicate that the theme is madness to the audience because from the beginning the narrator uses repetition, onomatopoeias, similes, hyperboles, metaphors and irony.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the most successful fables ever written. It took off its most fantastic details regarding the murdered man 's vulture like eye, and the long drawn out detail concerning the murderer 's slow entrance into his victim 's room, the story stays at an unforgettable recording of the guilty conscience of the man 's voice.
In both stories, the chief characters plan in great detail the actions they will take to rid themselves of that which haunts them. The narrator of "The Telltale Heart" is the killer, and he explains in the telling of his story how he felt no ill will toward the old man, but how it was the old man's pale eye that caused his "blood (to) run cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - (he) made up (his) mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid (himself) of the eye forever."[382] Later, he reflects on how meticulously he goes about entering the old man's room, planning the murder. "For seven nights - every night at midnight" he enters the sleeping chamber.[383] Prince Prospero, in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," decides to take with him many friendly "knights and dames"[386] from his court and hide away in secl...
The characters in The Tell-Tale Heart are complex, interesting, and elaborate. Although much is not known about them, they each have minor details that make them stand out. Whether it be the old man’s eye, or the narrators growing insanity.
Three elements of literary work that truly sum up the theme of The Tell Tale Heart are setting, character, and language. Through these elements we can easily see how guilt, an emotion, can be more powerful than insanity. Even the most demented criminal has feelings of guilt, if not remorse, for what he has done. This is shown exquisitely in Poe's writing. All three elements were used to their extreme to convey the theme. The balance of the elements is such that some flow into others. It is sometimes hard to distinguish one from another. Poe's usage of these elements shows his mastery not only over the pen, but over the mind as well.