The Vendetta and The Tell-Tale Heart: Compare & Contrast Essay

'A Vendetta 'The Tell-Tale Heart : Close or Distant

A Critical Review of Two Short Stories

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INTRODUCTION

Though it 's not exactly the case of 'great men think alike , yet there is some similarity between the two short stories of two great storytellers of two different times "The Tell-Tale Heart " by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849 ) and "A Vendetta " by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893 It produces same reactions at times , as both are murder

stories However , that far and no further , as each of them deal with different themes and different presentations . Therefore this essay tries to find out such differences and similarities between these two stories , before reaching its own conclusion

SUMMARY OF 'THE TELL-TALE HEART 'The Tell-Tale Heart ' deals with a theme like 'an ill mind can stretch itself to any degree under provocative conditions ' Here the central character is a nameless person , who is actually a madman and full of strange behavior . He does not like his master because of dully eyes and that is why he wants to kill his master ! Poe has written this story in first person , and that kind of storytelling raised more tension in the story , besides showing how the strange chemistry of human mind influences a person to kill someone , and then to confess about it . In the story , the dull expression of the eyes of his old master irritates the person and that irritation finally turns into a desire to murder the master . So the servant keeps on recharging his desire by visiting his master 's room at the dead of night for several days and then finally kills the old man . All the while readers come to know about his strange mental condition through his confessions about hearing strange sounds or his frequent references on 'madness . That 'madness ' carries the story till the end , when he kills and even cuts off the body parts of his master and hides them before revealing about everything to policemen

SUMMARY OF 'A VENDETTA

The theme of this story can be anything that speaks about 'how the intensity of human desire paves its way towards fulfillment . Presented in third person narrative , this story shows that how with dedication determination and application one can achieve an apparently impossible mission even under critical circumstance . The central character of the story , an old widow , finds her son Antoine Saverini murdered by a man named Nicolas Ravolati , who leaves the place at once . The widow gets shocked , as she is now left alone with only a dog as her companion , save the black future . Yet she resolves to avenge the murder of her son and constantly ponders on that idea , in spite of the fact that she is weak and has to support her in her mission . However , it 's her deep desire to fulfill the mission that aids to her vision , where she finds an option like training the dog to kill . Once decided...