Similarities Between The Tell Tale Heart And The Black Cat

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Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most well know authors around the world, famous for his gothic literature. Two of his most popular being The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat. Both are magnificent examples of Poe’s style of writing which traditionally embodies women, beauty, youth and death. This is one thing these two stories have in common; however, they have a multitude of differences as well. There are many similarities between these stories but they do correspond with the many differences between the two stories. In The Black Cat the narrator describes himself as becoming “…more moody, more irritable and regardless of the feelings of others” (Poe, 12), whereas the narrator in The Tell Tale Heart was mentally insane from the beginning.