The Black Cat Vs. The Tell-Tale Heart

The Black Cat vs. The Tell-Tale Heart The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart are similar in many ways but also very different. Some of the biggest similarities are for one at the beginning of The Black Cat the man does not think that there is anything wrong with him. He states in the text “Yet, mad am I not--and very surely do I not dream.” However, later in the story the narrator realized that there was something wrong with him and states “I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.” In The Tell-Tale Heart the narrator also stated that he was not crazy. The narrator states in the text “but why will you say that I am mad?” Also he says “How, then am I mad?” The narrator insists that there is nothing wrong with him. He thinks that the event helped him because it “sharpened my senses”. However, unlike in The Black Cat where the narrator realized he was wrong

This obsesion pushes them to the point of murdering over it. In The Black Cat the narrator states “I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!” This was the breaking point from The Black Cat narrator. In The Tell-Tale Heart the narrator kills the old man that he lives with because he can’t stand looking at the old man's eye. He states in the text that he liked the old man and wouldn’t hurt the old man if it wasn’t for the old man’s vulture eye. The narrator says in the text that “He had never given me insult, For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon my blood ran cold; and so by degrees--very gradually--I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye for