Essay Comparing The Tell Tale Heart And The Cask Of Amontillado

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In the short stories "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe is about murderers who have killed to satisfy their needs. Although there are similarities between the two of them, but one murderer is clearly more dangerous than the other. In both short stories, the murderers intended to kill, planning out how to kill them, where to kill them and they knew the reason behind their actions. Knowing some way somehow they there going to get their victims trust. "These vaults are extensive" said the victim of the wine killer (In "The Cask of Amontillado") Fortunato. Luring in Fortunato into a certain place where Amontillado knew what was going to happen to him. For the victims it was so sudden, cause never expected what the murderers where going to do to them. "...Then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and despite all between the scantlings." The heart killer (In …show more content…

A weird eye. "It was open--wide, wide open-- and I grew furious as I gazed upon it." Not liking what he had saw on his master face. One night he tried to be quiet but his master woke up, as he panic after watching him sleep through the night he jump in as his master screamed and smothered him with the sheets of the bed. Once he was finished what he had done he knew what he was going to do afterwards. He dismembered the body and hid the parts underneath the floor of the masters room. The neighbors made a complaint to the police within that night making them go the day after he murder. The heart killer knew how to be calm, and knew exactly what to do. As he let in the police they had a little chat but as the police chatted among themselves, he could hear the heart of the victim. The police lingered and laughed in front of him he grew even more guiltier. "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here!-- It is the beating of his hideous heart!" causing him to admit what he had

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