Edyn Bryan Miss Guentzel Language Arts 8C, Per. 1 13 March 2024 Compare and Contrast Essay Which is worse: planning out a brutal murder or feeling no remorse after killing someone? The “Tell-Tale Heart” was written by Edger Allen Poe. The genre is horror fiction. This short story is about a young man that doesn't like the old man's fake eye. The young man stalks the old man while he is sleeping for 7 days straight. The young man plans to kill him because the old man’s eye is weird. After the police searched his house, he felt guilty, and turned himself in. The “Lamb to Slaughter” is written by Ronald Dahl and the genre is horror short stories. In the short story, the wife and husband get into an argument and something happens. She gets super …show more content…
She offers them the lamb leg, they eat it and then the evidence is gone. Although the two stories have many similarities, the differences between them make the crime in “ Lamb to Slaughter” worse. The “Lamb to Slaughter” and the “Tell-Tale Heart” are similar in many ways. Some similarities are the wife in “Lamb to Slaughter” kills her husband which she loves, and in “Tell- Tale Heart” the young-man kills the old-man which he also loves. Another similarity is that both the young man and the wife are both insane. When the old- man sleeps, the young-man watches him, and when he kills him, it was because the old-man had a fake and weird looking eye. When the wife and the husband started fighting she ended it by killing him, also she laughed when Bryan 2 got away with it. Both of the stories have many similarities. Some more similarities are when the wife hides the evidence, she makes sure she cooks the lamb and is very calm to the police. When the young man hides the evidence, he hides it on the floorboards. The young man starts off very confident and then as they investigate he feels guilty. The wife feels no guilt at all after she kills her …show more content…
The wife took only a couple hours to kill her husband and then make the lamb into food. The young man takes 8 days to plan and kill. The younger man kills him by suffocation, and then he chops him into pieces, then puts him into the floorboards. 6. They both hide the evidence. Secondly, the wife feels nothing when she kills her husband. The wife laughed when the police could not find the evidence or even when it happened to her husband. Dahl 6: The young man felt very guilty. When the police were searching his house, he was very confident he was going to get away with his crime. As they continued searching, he kept getting more and more anxious. In conclusion, these short stories have many similarities, however “Lamb to Slaughter” is definitely worse because the wife feels no guilt. The wife and husband got into an argument and her first choice was to kill him. That is a terrible thing to do, and it is even worse because she does not feel guilty about it. In “Tell-Tale Heart” he does feel guilty for killing the old man, so Bryan 3 that is the most important difference. The young man plans the murder and the wife kills as an intrusive thought after an
Main characters usually face a giant challenge to overcome and have actions that change how they overcome the challenge. In both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Possibility of Evil we learn how our actions affect how we face the world around us. In The Tell-Tale Heart the tone illustrates a new picture describing the feelings of the main character. In The Possibility of Evil the revealing actions that Miss Strangeworth presents eventually will come back to her. Both texts use descriptive language to draw a reader into the story and show them how the main characters reacts to the actions they have caused.
Until the end where the clever detective (who is usually quite an old man, dressed in a smart tweed suit) goes through one by one all of the suspects telling them exactly why they could have committed the murder, but then why they didn't. He then confronts the real murderer who is normally the one everyone least suspects. This all takes place in a large country manor where lots of people would have been busying round but for the murderer, conveniently there are never any witnesses to the crime. The murder is most often well planed out, with a devious reason behind it. The two stories are both very different and mainly the only similarities are that they are both about murders that are done by people that are close family to the victims they murder in there own homes.7 The settings in both of them are very different; in lamb to the slaughter the setting is in a normal home in a small village, where normal family life goes on.
Humans are incredible creatures, being able to reason, and comprehend. This power also allows them to create false appearances. In Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”, a jealous stricken wife has to lie out of a murder. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, a hunter named Rainsford falls off of his boat, and swims to a private island. Meeting a fellow hunter, it becomes clear that this hunter goes for things other than animals. It becomes hunter running from hunter. Both authors suggest that people's appearances can be deceiving.
The Lady, the Tiger, or the Lamb Reading is a common pastime and hobby for many people. Whether it’s poetry, fiction novels, or biographies, there is a type of literature for everyone. Short stories are a great type of writing because while they are not too long, they have a fair amount of plot and literary devices. “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl and “The Lady, or the Tiger” by Frank R. Stockton are two short stories that engage readers and leave them to infer various big details. While they both are excellent passages, “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a far superior story.
In the two well known stories, “Lamb to the Slaughter” and “The Lady or the Tiger,” both deal with relationships that have gone wrong. The story for “Lamb to the Slaughter,” starts out with Mary Maloney, who is pregnant and sews and waits for her husband to come home everyday. When her husband comes home one day and tells her that he is leaving her, she gets upset and ends up killing him with a frozen lamb leg. By the end of the story she is able to also get away with doing it. As for “The Lady or the Tiger,” this story deals with a King, whose daughter has fallen in love with a man who is not of the same status as she is. When the king finds out of this, he sends him to their version of a court system, which consists of choosing between two doors. One that has a tiger that will kill them and one that has a girl that the man will get to marry. The princess knows which door has each option in it and has the power to tell him which one to choose. Although in the end, the story never actually tells you which one she picks, and leaves it up to you to imagine what she does. Both of these stories have a lot in common, such as dealing with complicated relationships, as well as both of these women end up losing no matter what they choose.
People say the mind is a very complex thing. The mind gives people different interpretations of events and situations. A person state of mind can lead to a death of another person. As we all know death is all around us in movies, plays, and stories. The best stories that survive throughout time involve death in one form or another. For example, William Shakespeare is considered as one of the greatest writers in literary history known for having written a lot of stories concerning death like Macbeth or Julius Caesar. The topic of death in stories keeps people intrigued and on the edge of their seats. Edgar Allan Poe wrote two compelling stories that deal with death “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven.” In “The
While both succeeded in their killing endeavors, only one got away with it Scott-free. They both where confident in their deliveries to keep both their victims unaware of their demises; But in Tell Tale Heart the narrators paranoia gets the best of him and he reveals the severed body parts of his victim, "tear up the planks! here, here!"(Poe 1843). One was rewarded with freedom and the other was incarcerated immediately after confessing his crime. Which could have a deeper intentional meaning by Poe, that even though you may get away with the crime Scott-free your conscious may begin to take a toll on your body mentally and physically. Causing any average human being the feeling of arrest and confinement emotionally which is debatably just as
The two short stories of “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black cat” by renowned author Edgar Allen Poe exemplifies the darkness of what a person can succumb to in certain situations. Both of these marvels share important realizations of thought and subconscious guilt’s. These short stories are used as an example of how two different people in two different situations can have the same reaction in the way of killing someone without remorse. Anger and hatred are major factors in simultaneous tells. The topic for this discussion is to discuss the similarities and differences of these two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe. Could there be more to what actually happens? Do both characters of these stories experience real supernatural events which cause them to lose it or is it a mental reaction which causes the mind to do things that are not
All of us have done something that we weren’t necessarily supposed to do. What many of us have realized was that sometimes the guilt that follows afterward hurts more than the actual action. We find it easy to break rules and be rebellious, but, in the end, we succumb to the following guilt, and confess. “The Tell-Tale Heart” explores a situation where a man makes the decision to kill someone, but ends up going insane following the act. Edgar Allan Poe uses plot, characterization, and irony to convey the theme of the effects of guilt.
Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, instantly grabs a reader’s attention with its grotesque title, ensuing someone’s downfall or failure. The saying “lamb to the slaughter,” usually refers to an innocent person who is ignorantly led to his or her failure. This particular short story describes a betrayal in which how a woman brutally kills her husband after he tells her that he wants a divorce. She then persuades the policemen who rush to the scene to consume the evidence. This action and Patrick’s actions show the theme of betrayal throughout the story which Roald Dahl portrays through the use of point of view, symbolism and black humor.
Edgar Allen Poe was an American Writer who wrote within the genre of horror and science fiction. He was famous for writing psychologically thrilling tales examining the depths of the human psyche. This is true of the Tell-Tale Heart, where Poe presents a character that appears to be mad because of his obsession to an old mans, ‘vulture eye’. Poe had a tragic life from a young age when his parents died. This is often reflected in his stories, showing characters with a mad state of mind, and in the Tell Tale Heart where the narrator plans and executes a murder.
The major part of the story was mostly about the guilt of the narrator. The story is about a mad man that after killing his companion for no reason hears a never-ending heartbeat and lets out his sense of guilty by shouting out his confession.
The Tell-Tale Heart is a story about a man whom, plagued by mental disorder, takes the life of a man. The narrator claims to have love for the old man and insist that it is the old man 's vulture eye that he cannot stand. He watches the old man for seven nights before killing him, dismembering the body, and hiding the evidence. The narrator ends up confessing to his crime to police officers after he is driven mad by the beating of the, now dead, old man 's heart.
The short story “Lamb to The Slaughter” by Roald Dahl is about the death of a detective who has been murdered by his wife. As officers arrive they can’t seem to find the murder and the murder weapon. The short story Lamb to The Slaughter is interesting to read because the author allows readers to put their own perspective into the book. Another reason is the storyline and finally the theme.
Cody Browning Soc. 101 Dr. Banerjee July 24, 2014 Introduction The article that I researched dealt with the mistreatment of McDonalds employees compared to the TFW (Temporary Foreign Workers). It also regarded whether or not McDonalds was abusing the TFW program.