The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado are two short stories written by Edgar Allen Poe in the 18th century. Both of these stories focus primarily on the mysterious and dark ways of the narrator. Since these stories were written by the same author, they tend to have many similarities such as atmosphere and narrative, but also have some differences. For example, the characteristics of both narrators are different, but both stories portray the same idea of the narrator being obsessive about a certain thing. The Tell-Tale Heart begins with the narrator explaining that he is not crazy, but just very disturbed by the vulture-like eye of the old man who lives in the same house. He seemed to be a little nervous more than anything. On the other hand, the narrator of The Cask of Amontillado seemed to be quite arrogant. He was very confident that his revenge plan on Fortunato would work. Although the traits of the narrators are not entirely similar, they both had the same idea in mind. The idea was to commit the murder of a man they had a problem with. For me, both narrat...
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