Tell Tale Heart Vs Lamb To Slaughter Research Paper

Anyone could be a murderer, and there are two stories that can show this perfectly. The Tell-Tale Heart and Lamb To Slaughter are both stories that tell about horrible and horrific things, but one is a worse crime than the other. It is just a decision of which one is worse. The answer should be Tell-Tale Heart. The reasoning for this is the reason for the kill. In the Lamb To Slaughter, the reason for her killing was because the husband was being rude to his wife and hurting her very much emotionally, which sad to say is more of a common reason to do something like that. Now in the story The Tell-Tale Heart, the man killed the elder man simply because he did not like the way he looked, and that is a terrible reason to kill another human being. There are

An example of this is when after she killed him she went to the store to get some food and talked with the store owner like she had no idea that when she came home he would be dead. (Roald 3) Then in the book The Tale-Tell Heart the man hides the body before letting the police into the old man's house. He then acts like the man has left on a trip. He then sits in a chair where the body is hiding and has a conversation with the cops as they sit down as well. Allen 83: This is one of many ways that these two stories are connected. Tale-Tale Heart has many similarities, but it also has many differences as well. We see these differences on many occasions, such as the reasoning for both kills, which we have talked about already. But there are many other differences as well, an example of this is of course the gender of both story characters. Another one that can be seen while reading is how they approached the situation. In the story The Tale-Tell Heart, the main character had spent nights just watching the old man planning on killing him, (Allen 78) while in the Lamb To The Slaughter she had killed him over something her husband had told