Tell-Tale Heart Compare Contrast Essay

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While many books and stories focus on selfless characters and heroic deeds, some authors prefer to become lost in the winding lies and falsities of the insane. In the cases of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Strawberry Spring by Stephen King; the authors choose to forego narrators who are honest and truthful to tell their tales from the perspectives of characters whose minds are clouded by deceitful misinformation. Of those from the stories presented, the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart is most unreliable due to his lying tendency, sensory hallucinations, and inability to come to terms with his own mental conditions. As the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart attempts to explain that he is not mad, he further justifies the notion that he’s the most unreliable narrator with his frequent false information. From the opening sentence of The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator questions why someone would think him insane; he has convinced himself that what he is experiencing that normal people do not is due to a heightening of his senses and not from a mental problem. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator, a woman who suffers from some type of mental illness that is frequently referred to as a “nervous depression” by both her and her husband, also has hallucinations focusing around the yellow wallpaper in the room she spends most of her time in. As the story …show more content…
He spreads falsities to others with his lies and cannot understand what people’s actions mean. In the end, lying is a natural part of communication that all people do, and no one can possibly be right all the time, so even a narrator that gives honest answers and straightforward descriptions can lead an audience

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