Edgar Allen Poes The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Am

Edgar all in all tolden Poes The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart and The caskful of AmontilladoIn each of Edgar Allen Poes stories of put to death and madness, he takes us inside the mind of the murderer from the time he begins until after the deed has been done. Poe gives us a point of view non common in works of horror and suspense the killers. We read the thoughts and keep an eye on the actions of the killer as he plots and follows through with his victim?s demise. All three of his stories are alike, especially The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. However, I found that The Cask of Amontillado differ more than any of the other two from each other. magic spell the murderers in The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart are motivated by their own insanity, the character in The Cask of Amontillado is driven by pure, old-fashioned revenge and jealousy. A couple primary(prenominal) details I noticed about all three tales is that each falsehood is told in first person, and all o f the main characters are male. Also, in the end of each of these short stories all workforce turn out to be no better, if not much worse, than they already were.The ?Tell-Tale Heart? begins with the murderer raving about his sanity, and that he commits the crime not because of lunacy but for his master?s ?Evil-Eye.? The man describes the eye as if it is a separate entity from the old man, and if it weren?t for the eye he would prolong nothing against his master. The eye being attached to the old man is honorable an unfortunate detail. In the following quote the man describes his feelings towards the Evil-Eye and what he stubborn to do about it ?Whe neer 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 indeed rid myself ... ...d in some part of the home of each of the murderers. Also, in both of ?The Tell-Tale Heart? and ?The Cask of Amontillado? the killer?s guilty consciences at last caused some s ort of confession of their crimes. The man in the first story was driven mad into confessing from an imaginary heart beat, and the man in the latter(prenominal) is left to believe his conscience is what caused him to write his story confessing his crime. Both men in ?The Tell-Tale Heart? and ?The Black Cat? were extremely confident in their job hiding the bodies, and almost bragging at their job at hiding the body. However, in all three stories the men were punished in some way. The first two stories I described had the law concentrated the two men. The final story I described the man was never caught by the authorities for his crime, but instead he had to deal with the clog from his guilty conscience.