Edgar Allan Poes Tell Tale Heart and Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Adve

Edgar Allan Poes Tell Tale Heart and Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Adventure of the Speckled BandSir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe, some(prenominal) authors who areeminent for the content of their stories, wrote about crime. Thoughthey invented stories concerning crime, they both wrote throughdifferent perspectives. This essay is going to compare how thecharacters of both stories, Tell Tale Heart written by Poe, and TheAdventure of the Speckled Band written by Doyle, have been depicteddifferently by their authors as well as exploring into the languagestyle of the two stories.The historical backgrounds of both authors have influenced the waytheir stories are written.Poe was seen to have an temporary life as his mother died at and earlyage of three, and after that he was taken into a entertain home of JohnAllan. He was meliorate at the University of Virginia. Later he wentthrough a quarrel with his foster father and left home. He served inthe U.S. Army under a erroneous na me, Edgar A. Perry, and incorrect ageand then attended West Point from 1830 to 1831 exactly got himselfdismissed when he realized he would never be reconciled with hisfoster father. He wrote Gothic novels, which is a type of fiction,written in reaction to 18th-c rationalism, that reclaims mystery andlicenses extreme emotions. His third volume of poetry brought himneither fame nor profit but in 1833 he won a prize for best shortstory. From 1844, he settled down in New York as an editor and totallythis while he was gaining some reputation for his short stories,poems, reviews, and essays, such stories as The Fall of the House ofUsher (1839), Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), and The Gold hemipteron(1843), would later be regard... ...e of the Speckled Band, it could be seen that theyboth follow a formulaic plot, but the authors accentuate on differentparts of the plot, such as the problem or development, in differentproportions, either emphasizing more than or less on it. For examp le, Poeemphasizes the self-obsessive actions and feelings of the protagonistin the development more than the others, whereas Doyle emphasizes moreon the problem, which is discussed between the client and Holmes. InDoyles stories there are many characters, which are significant inthe plot in their own way, such as Holmes, Watson, the convict and thevictim, whereas in Poes stories the protagonist is the victimhimself. The language is intricate, in both stories, from their ownpoint of views, but because of Holmes logical reasoning behindeverything and Poes self-obsessive actions, it does not see so.