The Tell Tale Heart and A Confession Found In A Prison In...

Compare and Contrast The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and A Confession Found In A Prison In The Time Of Charles II by Charles Dickens ==================================================================== We have looked at two different short stories by two different authors. The first story is called ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allan Poe and the second is called ‘A Confession found in a prison in the time of Charles II’ by Charles Dickens. I have found out that that they both have a murder theme in common. There are also other similar themes between the two poems such as early confessions. The plot in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is about a mad man that has the motive to kill an old man because of the look of his eye. We†¦show more content†¦The boy could also be a problem in the future. We know quite quickly that all is not well for both narrators because they both hint of the outcome, and confess early. In ‘A confession found in a prison in the time of Charles II’ the narrator says ‘I will set down the naked truth without disguise’ showing that he will reveal the whole story. He also says ‘My name is written in the black-book of death,’ which shows that he is line for execution for something that he has done wrong. The same sort of theme applies for ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ when the narrator quotes ‘How calmly I can tell you the whole story.’ This shows that something is going to be confessed in the near future. Both authors use short sentences at the beginnings of their stories. They use this writing technique to build tension. This is shown better in the ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ line 15 where he starts of the paragraph with three sentences in the first line. ‘Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing.’ In ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ the only relationship is between the old man and the narrator. 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