Bell Ringer - August 24, 2020 Name: Ashley Jackson
Date: 8/24/20
Block 2nd
List three ways the narrators from "The Cask of Amontillado" and "he Tell-Tale Heart"
are similar.
*Thou both committed horrible crimes

January, 1968 - UNT Digital Library

Explanation:

January, 1968 - UNT Digital Library

well-known to need quoting here. His insistence upon unity

of preconceived effect and unity of tone and mood, though

repeated often, was first and best stated in his now famous

review of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (May, 1842):

A skillful literary artist has constructed a

tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his

thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but

having conceived, with deliberate care, a

certain unique or single effect to be wrought

out, he then invents such incidents--he then

combines such events as may best aid him in

establishing this preconceived effect. If

his very initial sentence tend not to the

outbringing of this effect, then he has failed

in his first step. In the whole composition

there should be no word written, of which the

tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one

pre-established design. And by such means,

with such care and skill, a picture is at

length painted which leaves in the mind of him

who contemplates it with a kindred art, a

sense of the fullest satisfaction. The idea

of the tale has been presented unblemished,

because undisturbed.1

It may be wondered why Poe, who wrote most of his stories in the first person, so much admired Hawthorne, whose

tales are characteristically related by an omniscient author

in third person. The answer to this question no doubt lies

in the fact that, although Hawthorne used the third person,

his method is nearly always narrative rather than dramatic.

The reader sits at his feet and listens, almost as to an

oral storyteller. The monotony in Hawthorne's prose fiction,

lEdgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe,

edited by James A. Harrison, Vol. XI of 17 vols. (New York,

1902), p. 108. Further citations of this edition will be

shortened to Works.

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which Poe later reproached in 1847, relates directly to this

more or less dreamy tone2 of Hawthorne's narrative voice:

[Hawthornej . . . has little or no variety

of tone. He handles all subjects in the same

subdued, misty, dreamy, suggestive, innuendo

way, and although I think him the truest

genius, upon the whole, which our literature

possesses, I cannot help regarding him as the

most desperate mannerist of his day.

Poe's dissatisfaction here stems from his adherence to an

artistic principle of variety of tone which, as will be

demonstrated, he increased in his tales by using different

kinds of first-person narrators for different types of story

materials.4 Thus he hoped through this technique to avoid

the monotony which he felt existed in Hawthorne's fictional

prose. It apparently made more sense to Poe to have a new

voice for a new story than to have the same voice in a new

mood for each new story, and Poets reasoning upon the subject certainly shows more artistic consideration for the

principle of variety in entertainment.

the answer is the second one.

are you asking for an essay and whats the story?