Tell-Tale Heart Vs Landlady
“The Tell-Tale Heart” and the “Landlady” have a lot of differences and common things. They deal with odd characters and peculiar situations. Both of the stories have eerie setting which make them attractive to the people who read them. In some parts of the stories, very creepy events happen and make people frightened. Each of them has conflict, irony, allusion, which makes them very attractive to the audience. Both “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl deal with atypical events and bizarre characters, but they do so in different ways which makes them fit into the unit of strange and unusual stories.
In both of the stories there is someone who is going to get killed, and the reason is not a very big one. But …show more content…
Both “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the “Landlady” are gothic, spooky stories. Each of them uses a wry, humorously straightforward narration. Each one also gets more and more suspenseful as the story goes on, and takes advantage of the setting to make it suspenseful. Finally, each one has a surprise ending. In each case, the reader is introduced to strange happenings by just throwing them to the reader. Both stories end abruptly in climatic and suspenseful ways, but while the narrator is arrested after confessing in “The Tell-Tale Heart” the readers are just left to think that Billy Weaver is going to be killed, because the lady tells him there were no other guests and ask him to sign the guest book, where her victims are. “Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here,here!” (#528). “Temple,” Billy said, “Gregory Temple. Excuse my asking, but haven’t there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?” … “No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.”(Line 103-105). This two quotes explains that both stories end abruptly in climatic and suspenseful ways. “The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.(#526).” This quote shows that the story is getting more and more
In both of the stories there is someone who is going to get killed, and the reason is not a very big one. But …show more content…
Both “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the “Landlady” are gothic, spooky stories. Each of them uses a wry, humorously straightforward narration. Each one also gets more and more suspenseful as the story goes on, and takes advantage of the setting to make it suspenseful. Finally, each one has a surprise ending. In each case, the reader is introduced to strange happenings by just throwing them to the reader. Both stories end abruptly in climatic and suspenseful ways, but while the narrator is arrested after confessing in “The Tell-Tale Heart” the readers are just left to think that Billy Weaver is going to be killed, because the lady tells him there were no other guests and ask him to sign the guest book, where her victims are. “Villains! I shrieked, dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here,here!” (#528). “Temple,” Billy said, “Gregory Temple. Excuse my asking, but haven’t there been any other guests here except them in the last two or three years?” … “No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.”(Line 103-105). This two quotes explains that both stories end abruptly in climatic and suspenseful ways. “The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.(#526).” This quote shows that the story is getting more and more