Edgar Allen Poe wrote two amazing short stories featuring crazed men killing other men; these are "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." There are many aspects of each story that can be compared and contrasted to the other, including the personalities of the murderers and of the victims, the motives behind each murder, and the symbolism hidden throughout each.
The personalities of the murderers seem to be quite different, one man is seen as a complete lunatic from the beginning of the story and the other as quite collected. These men are, however, more alike than the reader discerns from a brief first reading, though there are substantial differences between them. The first example of a similarity is that they both behave towards their victims as benign friends, as they carry out their malicious plans. Montressor, narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado," leads his victim, Fortunato, to his family's catacombs, carrying on what Fortunato believes to be friendly......
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