compare and contrast ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allen Poe and ‘A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second’ by Charles Dickens

Compare and contrast ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second’


I am going to compare and contrast ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ by Edgar Allen Poe and ‘A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second’ by Charles Dickens. I will look at the way in which both authors create suspense in the stories, and give a personal opinion about them.
The title ‘A Tell-Tale Heart’ is a suitable title because the story tells a tale of a heart. It is the beating of the old man’s heart that drives the murderer insane. The title of ‘Confession’ gives much of the story away. We know from the title that someone is confessing to a serious crime because he is in prison. We also know that it is set in the time of Charles the Second. ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ just tells us that it is a story of a heart which gives away a secret, whereas ‘Confession’ tells us a lot more. The genre of both stories is horror, wit...