Tell Tale Heart Compare And Contrast

Has being mad ever made you do something you wouldn't expect? Such as violence? In "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl and "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe that's what the main character did, but for a different reason. Mary in "Lamb to the Slaughter" murdered her husband, Patrick Maloney, for telling Mary he is going to leave her. In "Tell Tale Heart" the narrator killed the old man simply because of his eye. That is just one difference between these two stories but there's many more as well of similarities.

In both "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "Tell Tale Heart" the author uses the technique of the reader knowing more than the character. While the reader may know that Mary Maloney murdered her husband with a lamb leg, the detectives suspect that she
Although "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "Tell Tale Heart" both use inner thinking, they are used to achieve different goals. In "Tell Tale Heart" inner thinking is used to show the characters motivation. But in "Lamb to the Slaughter" inner thinking is used to get readers predicting. In "Tell Tale Heart" inner thinking was used to show the narrator's motivation to kill the old man and to prove he's not crazy. "Madmen know nothing. You should have seen. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded—with what caution—with what foresight—with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man then during the whole week before I killed him." He thinks this in hopes he will prove he's not a "madmen". In "Lamb to the Slaughter" the author, Roald Dahl" uses inner thinking to get readers predicting. "What about the baby? What were the laws about a murderer with an unborn child?" These are all the thoughts of the main character, Mary Maloney. This gets the readers predicting if she will confess to save the baby or not. In both stories inner thinking is used to achieve different