The Thin Line Between Love and Hate In “The Black Cat,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe writes two haunting horror fiction short stories, detailing two different murders. Blood-filled and gory, these two stories will be sure to have you at the edge of your seat and gasping at every turn.“The Tell-Tale Heart,” follows the path of a meticulous man plotting the murder of his employer. Driven to insanity by the man’s “vulture” eye, the narrator suffocates the him. In the end, the eye has its revenge. In “The Black Cat,” a man’s love for animals eventually turns into a cold-blooded murder. In the two short stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe spins two unique murder tales of madness, arrogance, and love. …show more content…
In the “Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator explains what a madman would or wouldn’t do, by saying, “Madmen know nothing,” and,“ Would a madman have been so wise as this?,”(3,4). The narrator called himself sane while he proceeded to describe his murder of an innocent man. In “The Black Cat,” the narrator is ashamed of his actions and admits so, “I blush, I burn, I shudder, as I pen this damnable atrocity,” (5). Yet, he claims,”Mad am I not,” (Poe, “Black Cat”, 1). Though the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” is more adamant, the narrator in “The Black Cat” still denies that he is