Edgar Allen Poes The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Am

Edgar Allen Poes The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of AmontilladoIn each of Edgar Allen Poes stories of murder and madness, he takes us deep d consume the mind of the murderer from the time he begins until after the deed has been done. Poe gives us a point of view not common in works of horror and suspense the killers. We read the thoughts and follow the actions of the killer as he plots and follows through with his victim?s demise. All three of his stories are alike, especi bothy The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart. However, I found that The Cask of Amontillado differ more than any of the other two from each other. While the murderers in The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart are motivated by their own insanity, the character in The Cask of Amontillado is driven by pure, old-fashioned revenge and jealousy. A couple main details I noticed about all three tales is that each story is told in start-off person, and all of the main characters are male. Also, in the en d of each of these short stories all workforce felon out to be no better, if not much worse, than they already were.The ?Tell-Tale Heart? begins with the murderer raving about his sanity, and that he commits the crime not because of lunacy tho for his master?s ?Evil-Eye.? The man describes the eye as if it is a separate entity from the old man, and if it weren?t for the eye he would have nothing against his master. The eye beingness attached to the old man is just an unfortunate detail. In the following quote the man describes his feelings towards the Evil-Eye and what he decided to do about it ?Whenever it fell upon me, my line of credit 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 ... ...d in some part of the phratry of each of the murderers. Also, in both of ?The Tell-Tale Heart? and ?The Cask of Amontillado? the killer?s guilty consciences eventually caused some sort of confession of their crimes. The man in the first story was driven mad into confessing from an imaginary heart beat, and the man in the latter is left to believe his conscience is what caused him to write his story confessing his crime. Both men in ?The Tell-Tale Heart? and ?The Black Cat? were extremely confident in their job covert the bodies, and almost bragging at their job at hiding the body. However, in all three stories the men were punished in some way. The first two stories I described had the law punishing the two men. The final story I described the man was never caught by the authorities for his crime, but instead he had to deal with the weight from his guilty conscience.