Comparing Tell-Tale Heart And Lamb To The Slaughter

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Imagine a cat stalking a mouse for nights upon nights, planning and waiting until the right moment to catch it. Now imagine a cat pouncing on a mouse right away, with no plan. Both cats still ended up doing the same thing, but one of the incidents could quite possibly be worse than the other. In the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, written by Edgar Allen Poe, it talks about an old man and his servant. The servant hates the old man because of his eyes. He stalks the old man for eight nights, and then kills him by suffocation. He then dismembers the body and hides it on the floorboards. He didn't call the police, but still got interviewed. He began to feel remorse, confessed, and was obviously caught. This was a murder planned. In the short …show more content…

She gets interviewed and investigated, but she doesn't confess, and she doesn't feel bad. Nobody finds out in the end. The murder was not planned. Surely, there are many similarities between “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Lamb to the Slaughter”. Starting with the obvious similarities, both stories are about a highly unnecessary murder. They are both unnecessary because, first, in the Tell-Tale Heart, the servant only murders the man because the man's eye was bothering him. Next, in “Lamb to The Slaughter” the wife murders her husband because he wants a divorce. Truly, they both could have solved that problem in a more polite manner. Another similarity between the two stories is that both the murderers hid the evidence, and they hid it well. In the Tell-Tale Heart, the servant dismembers the body and hides it in the floorboards, surely nobody would even think to look there. And in Lamb to the slaughter, the murderer cooks the weapon and feeds it to the police, after that it will literally be impossible to find. Lastly, another similarity is that in both stories the murderers were interviewed by the police, even though one didn't call them, and the other

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