The Black Cat And The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe’s Stories
“I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain.”
Edgar Allen Poe was a famous author of poems, in the 1800s. Some of his poems include “The Raven”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Black Cat”, and “The Tell Tale Heart”. In most of Poe’s short stories, the narrator wanted revenge, but got caught and because of this he was executed. In Poe’s short stories the theme of anger leads to mistakes is shown through setting, character, plot. Setting, character, and plot all show, the theme of anger leads to mistakes. The setting is at the narrator’s house, the narrator is a drunk, and has a bad temper. “On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire…The whole house was blazing.” In this part of the story “The Black Cat” the narrator’s house was on fire. His anger led him to the mistake of burning down his house. “I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain… I was determined to wall her up in a cell. The narrator was walking down the stairs with his wife and got tripped up by the cat. He was so angry that he tried to kill the cat, but was stopped by his wife, so instead he killed her. This quote shows the narrator’s anger leading him to the
The narrator in the story “The Tell Tale Heart” is the keeper of an older man who has a bad eye. The narrator hates the eye so he kills the old man. “For it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye.” The narrator has been peeking in on the old man for several nights, trying to see his eye.It shows his anger for the eye, he hates it so much that he wants to get rid of it. “He was stone dead. His eye would trouble me no more.” The narrator has just killed the old man because of his eye. His anger for the eye, caused him to make the mistake of killing the old man. Finally, the theme of anger leads to mistakes is shown by