Similarities Between The Raven And Tell Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe is a very dark and mysterious person. In “The Raven” and Tell Tale Heart, the narrators and characters are depressing and melancholy, but they’re insane! They’re personality is so bizarre. In “The Raven”, there's a person minding their own business, and a raven flies into his room and he can magically start talking to the narrator, but the only response he gives is “nevermore”. The unnamed narrator begins saying that he’s crazy, it should be in his head, and he talks about this person, Lenore. In Tell Tale Heart, there’s this character taking care of this old man, but he is scared to his life of this old man because of his eye. The old man's’ eye is supposedly “vexing” the person taking care of him, and he kills the old man. In Poe’s writing, he uses similarities and differences to show how the narrators are insane.

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There’s a difference between being just a little bit crazy, and being completely bizarre and insane, but these narrators are just horrific. One way they're similarly insane is by thinking they're hearing something, but there isn't anything there. For example, in “The Raven”, the narrator hears someone at his chamber door hoping it's a person, but there is nothing there. And in Tell Tale Heart, the narrator kills the old man because of this “evil eye” and when the police get home to investigate, the narrator says he hears the heartbeat of the old man, but there is no heartbeat. The old man is knocked out cold and there's no way his heart could be beating. This shows how their similarities tell they're insane because there are paranoid, they think they hear