Tell Tale Heart Contrast
Tell Tale Heart Compare and Contrast
Have you ever heard of the story “Tell Tale Heart”? It’s a great scary story by Edgar Allen Poe. The story is about a man who is simply terrified of his master's eye. It’s important to know that the man is probably insane, or mad. While the play and the book were very well done, and I enjoyed both of them, the play “Tell Tale Heart”, and the written story “Tell Tale Heart”, were similar and different in many ways. The play and the story were very similar. Besides the obvious main story similarities, there were several other things that also made the play very much like the book. I think it was essential that they kept the same characters so when the main character, the mad man, and the other character, …show more content…
This may sound gruesome, but in the play the death of the old man was very different than the death in the written story. The death in the written story was done by suffocation. A bed was pulled over the man until the heartbeat could no longer be heard, “I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead”(pg2). In the play, the man simply threw the lantern at the man's head, and then chopped him up into several pieces. Another death related difference was, in the book the old man was cut up into many pieces and in the play he was only cut up into 6, his head, arms, legs, and body. The story says that once the man was deceased he picked up the body and placed him under the floorboards, “I took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly so cunningly that no human eye -- not even his -- could have detected anything wrong”(pg2). When the police came in the story, it said that there were three officers. They sat down in the old man’s living room and talked, “I went down to open it with a light heart -- for what had I now to fear? There entered three men”(pg2). While in the play there was only one officer. Now while I understand they might have been understaffed, and they might have not been able to have three officers, I wish they would
Have you ever heard of the story “Tell Tale Heart”? It’s a great scary story by Edgar Allen Poe. The story is about a man who is simply terrified of his master's eye. It’s important to know that the man is probably insane, or mad. While the play and the book were very well done, and I enjoyed both of them, the play “Tell Tale Heart”, and the written story “Tell Tale Heart”, were similar and different in many ways. The play and the story were very similar. Besides the obvious main story similarities, there were several other things that also made the play very much like the book. I think it was essential that they kept the same characters so when the main character, the mad man, and the other character, …show more content…
This may sound gruesome, but in the play the death of the old man was very different than the death in the written story. The death in the written story was done by suffocation. A bed was pulled over the man until the heartbeat could no longer be heard, “I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead”(pg2). In the play, the man simply threw the lantern at the man's head, and then chopped him up into several pieces. Another death related difference was, in the book the old man was cut up into many pieces and in the play he was only cut up into 6, his head, arms, legs, and body. The story says that once the man was deceased he picked up the body and placed him under the floorboards, “I took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly so cunningly that no human eye -- not even his -- could have detected anything wrong”(pg2). When the police came in the story, it said that there were three officers. They sat down in the old man’s living room and talked, “I went down to open it with a light heart -- for what had I now to fear? There entered three men”(pg2). While in the play there was only one officer. Now while I understand they might have been understaffed, and they might have not been able to have three officers, I wish they would