Comparing The Tell-Tale Heart And The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is known for being the author of popular short stories with characters that deal with their conscience and perversity. These stories by Poe are called “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) and "The Black Cat" (1843), which all have different aspects of how the characters deal with their conscience reappearing in their minds and how they get rid of it or let it consume them. However, the conscience uses different forms to advocate against the crimes being committed. The narrators of these stories often begin by saying that they are not crazy or that the story will be difficult for them to comprehend and that they can never be forgiven. The characters appear to have a desire to murder the aspects of themselves that make them human, and

As though he were in control of him or his evil eye. However, as they spoke, he got a headache, and he wished them gone. He heard something but couldn't find what it was, so he tried to talk about it and he “grew very pale” (Poe, 619). At that moment, the narrator feels nothing but arrogance, but this is also the point at which his conscience finally catches up with him and drives him to tell the truth. Even then, the narrator talked louder, but then it became a tik tik tik sound, which made him realize it was the old man's heartbeat that was increasing. His conscience convinced him that the policemen knew, he grew stressed and anxious. The narrator felt such agony that confessing was a better outcome than continuing to be tortured (Poe, 619). At last, his own conscience, in the beating sound form, made him yell out the truth and say where the body was. In The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator has little to no morals; he only feels guilt about his first murder, which was his cat named Pluto, but finds some kind of satisfaction in committing