Comparing The Black Cat And The Tell-Tale Heart

The relationship between Poe’s narrators and their claim to insanity, would be to confess the crimes they have committed, such as murder, rather than having what they have done, be covered up with guilt. However, this stands for their actions being either intentional or unintentional, they shall be punished for the wrongs that they have made at any point in time.
Between the stories, some similarities in both the Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart is that both stories take place at Poe’s home, late at night, Poe uses silence and stillness to build up tension, both stories consist of a murder, Poe has hatred towards something in both settings and there is a conflict with alcoholism that causes the actions he makes. In the Story The Tell-Tale

He was still sitting up in the bed listening; --just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall" ( Poe 1). Because the room was dark and there was much more silence after a sound that startled the Old Man, to the point where he was then wide awake, yet sitting there in pure silence, it made the scene even more terrifying and startling. In this story however, Poe had a hatred for the Old Man’s eye. He was not sure what it was about it but he had once stated that “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe 1). Poe would call the man's eye a vulture eye and whenever he went to look upon the man in the middle of the night, he had found the eye always closed with

Furthermore, just as both stories have much similarities, they as well have much differences. In the story The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe murdered a old man by dragging him off of his bed, putting him onto the floor and then placing the bed over him till he became stone dead. In the Story The Black Cat, Poe had murdered his very own pet cat by hanging him. Before this great deal, he had tortured the cat by scraping his eye out with a penknife. After doing so, he later claimed that “One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God” (Poe 2). This action seemed to be the most intentional despite what he claims to be his illness. The reason for that is because things progressed between Pluto and Poe over