The Speckled Band And The Tell Tale Heart Comparison

Most of us understand the designations of trepidation in a frightened person’s face—the ocular perceivers widen, the eyebrows shoot up, and the mouth opens to gasp or scream. A mundane person would visually perceive such a face and cerebrate “This person is trepidation,” but a psychopath wouldn’t cerebrate anything of it because he can’t understand the fear. It’s not that they culls not to—it’s that they authentically can’t.The two stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have some kindred attributes and differences in the narration of their stories. “The Tell Tale Heart” was narrated by murderer, while “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” was narrated by a detective, but both stories are first person stories and about the murders.
In the story, Poe is annoyed by the sounds from the old man's room and disgusted by old man’s pale blue eye ball. Poe being the narrator isn’t much reliable as he is also the point of view we looking as he tries to make a point whatever he is doing is right. “I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down.” ( Poe ) At the eighth night when he tries to enter the old man’s room old man wakes up the lantern with Poe, while Poe tries to keep himself unnoticeable till the old man goes to sleep again as he stays in a stiff position for a couple minutes but for him it felt like an