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  The Tell-Tale Heart After the quiz, here are a few elements we need to stress : - the story starts with TRUE ! But can we trust the narrator ? - There's no description whatsoever of either the narrator, or his victim. The narrator could be a man or a woman. We don't know much about his relation to the old man. - The story focuses on the crime itself and its preparation. The narrator tells it, insisting that he's not mad. - The action takes place in a room, like in tFotHoU. - The narrator says he has over acuteness of the senses, like in tFotHoU. Similarities  we can't trust both narrators. In FHU, he's imagining things. In TTH, he's lying. in both stories, there's the topic / theme of death and madness  no female character the language acuteness of the senses   Differences  In the TTH, the narrator / hero is an antagonist. In FHU, he tries to save R. Usher (or is he ?) less supernatural elements in TTH than in FHU (unless there is none in FHU) The text ...

Similarities  we can't trust both narrators. In FHU, he's imagining things. In TTH, he's lying. in both stories, there's the topic / theme of death and madness  no female character the language acuteness of the senses   Differences  In the TTH, the narrator / hero is an antagonist. In FHU, he tries to save R. Usher (or is he ?) less supernatural elements in TTH than in FHU (unless there is none in FHU) The text in TTH is more explicit than in FHU in TTH the plot / Story is told more directly, straight to the point. Is TTH Gothic ? FHU is longer than TTH No double in TTH "The Perverse" in TTH  Summary  It's about a person (the narrator) who lives with an old man. He decides to kill him because he's got an "evil eye," a "vulture's eye." So every night, for one week, the narrator stays in front of the old man's bedroom door and spies the old man as he sleeps.  Characterization / Modern Horror Literature  1. The Metamorphosis, F...

  Pour un dico bilingue : wordreference Pour un doc unilingue : Merriem-Webster (US) / Collins (GB) Pour un dictionnaire des synonymes : thesaurus.com   Conseils pour commencer : -  essayez une citation (pas forcément de l'auteur / de l'oeuvre étudié) - vous pouvez présenter un aspect de l'oeuvre, de l'auteur qui vous serviront  pour la question  de l'essai. - vous pouvez tenter une définition des termes du sujet. En tous cas, il FAUT produire votre question et votre plan.  My outline will faull into X parts... To conclude / To put it in a nutshell / To sum it all up / The Tell-Tale Heart After the quiz, here are a few elements we need to stress : - the story starts with TRUE ! But can we trust the narrator ? - There's no description whatsoever of either the narrator, or his victim. The narrator could be a man or a woman. We don't know much about his relation to the old man. - The story focuses on the crime itself and its preparation. The narrator tells it,...