The Story of the Hour to the Tell Tale Heart

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Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of the Hour” to “The Tell Tale Heart” How would you feel if you are trapped somewhere? In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard is a wife who is trapped in an unfulfilling marriage and even diagnosed with a weak heart. She is the type of woman who wants to feel liberated in her own life. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a madman and murderer who fails to conceal his fear after he kills an old man. Although they both have many similarities, surprisingly there are many differences between these two stories. However, Poe and Chopin use various facts to illustrate the ideas and represent the similarities and differences between Mrs. Mallard and the narrator, ultimately indicating that the two characters want to get freedom from their lives. The first comparison is that both of the stories narrators change their lives for a certain while because of confidence. Mrs. Mallard, from “Story”, makes a plan for her future after her husband dies because she is not a dramatic woman who is weeping and getting depressed after her husband’s incident. She has confidence that “There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself” (Chopin 235). Moreover, she can live freely even without her husband and create her own life. By the same token, the narrator in “Heart” seems to have full confidence to kill the old man by using the excuse that he doesn’t like the old man’s vulture eyes. The narrator spends the night by planning to murder an old man while he is sleeping. Also, after the old man dies, the narrator hides the proof so that no one can detect anything wrong: “Nothing to wash out-no stain of any kind-no blood-spot whatever” (Poe 85). In the same way, they both want to have freedom in their lives. Mrs.Mallard, too, is a creative,
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