Some of the most striking similarities can be found between "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", two short stories that divulge the inner workings of a perverse mind. First, The plot of these stories is similar in many ways. ... In "Heart", the narrator suffered from insanity and the obvious obsessive disorder. ... Denying his insanity, the narrator from "Heart" is very similar to the man in "The Black Cat", which denies his belief in the superstition of black cats. ... As in most Poe stories, biting and mutilation appear in both. ...

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This relates directly to the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in the subject formation of the main character. ... In the beginning of the story he is confident, but as he tells his story, it becomes clear that he is struggling to hold onto sanity. ... This becomes evident in his work, perhaps suggesting that Poe himself may have been fighting against insanity. ... Poe's character appears to be "a prisoner of nothing but himself" and his own insanity. ... Or was Poe simply writing a story, with no other implied meaning but that of imagination? ...

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This idea is clearly portrayed throughout the poem "The Raven" and short story "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... Things that that killer obsesses about are brought up several times in the short story. ... He constantly claims sanity, but it only causes him to seem more insane and his "erratic and confused language" amplifies his insanity ("The Tell-Tale Heart" 346). ... Poe incorporates himself into his short stories with his dark, poetic writing style as means of representing the evil in him as well as the evil in society. ... In the short story "The Tell-Tell Heart" and poem "The Raven", Poe has ...

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An Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Main Characters In each of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe writes each main character with different personalities although some similar traits can be found in all his main characters. ... He starts off the story by convincing the reader he is not a madman. Insanity is one personality trait that is usually linked to all Poe characters. ... Both characters had well planned murder plots in each story. ... In both stories they refer to their murder victims ...

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He saw himself as a poet, but it were his stories which made him rather famous. ... He grows extremely close with a man who stays with him for a short while, although this is due to a slight imperfection in the man. ... He was actually just doing his job, he was an author so of course he wrote stories, most of which spark people so greatly that even today they criticize him. ... Whether Poe wrote of death because of depression, disease, personal losses, insanity, or simply because he may have been the only man bold enough to face the one thing that everyone fears, he will always be famous for...

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