Analysis Of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Poe’s dark and macabre stories give the readers a sense of tension, and uneasiness, but they provide insight into his cruel life. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” discusses Poe’s tormenting feelings, and delves within his affliction that is alcoholism, and how that disease creates a monster inside of him. Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” illustrates the extent of the main character's insanity. These stories both explain and run parallel to Poe’s life and displays feelings of guilt, and how symbolism gives us insight into the story and his life. The saddening themes shown will be further explained to emphasise how they relate to his life, and similar or different the connections may be. One of the major themes in Poe’s stories is guilt, Poe’s life was infuriating and often very depressing. Poe tied those feelings to his stories, “The Tell
In “The Black Cat” Poe feels guilt for carving out the eye of the cat, killing the cat, and killing his wife, yet he does not confess to the crime, the body of his wife is merely found. On the other hand, in “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator confesses his deed due to the guilt of murdering that man. The narrator explains “‘Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! Here, here! --It is the beating of his hideous heart!’” (Poe paragraph 10). Perhaps Poe wanted to depict the severity of his alcoholism and how alcoholism made him continue his actions no matter how guilty he felt. Poe was maybe trying to explain that his alcoholism caused him to do worse things rather than his mental issues. In “The Black Cat” upon the finding of his wife’s corpse, the narrator explains “...sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder” (Poe paragraph 33).The cat representing his alcoholism “seduced” him into committing the