• Compare and Contrat the "Tell tale Heart" written by Edgar Allen Poe, and "Vandals" written by Alice Munro.

     

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Published: 25.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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  • Essays 'Compare and Contrat the "Tell tale Heart" written by Edgar Allen Poe, and "Vanda', 1.
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) written by Edgar Allan Poe, and "The Vandals" (1994) written by Alice Munro are two gothic short stories which deal with inexplicable, psychotic behaviours. In the first story, "The Tell-Tale Heart", an insane man kills and dismembers an old man for no sane, explainable reason. In "The Vandals" a young womans childhood is catapulted into the future, where the reader is left in the dark about the reasoning for her outrageous behavior. From the paranoid, intense tone in " The Tell Tale Heart", to the more sedate, mundane tone of the "Vandals" we can see that "got…

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