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 experience 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 iniquity 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 solelyy 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 jump person, and all of the main characters are male. Also, in the end of each of these short stories all manpower function 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 still 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 organism 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 slant 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 photographic plate 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 concealing 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 nett 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.