In both stories, the murderer himself is conveying his movements and mannerisms before and after committing the crime making it a first person narration.

The opening paragraph of ‘A confession’ delivers a significant amount of information telling the reader a little about the back round life of the killer, thus is the same with ‘A Tell Tale Heart,’ although we are not given as much information about his life, just of the feelings felt by him surrounding the murder.

The tone of the two stories is completely different, ‘A Confession’ Is written in a blunt, unenthusiastic, seemingly monotone manner with a long, drab sentence structure, which is fairly understandable being that he is to be executed the following day. ‘I speak of myself as if I had passed from the world; for while I write this my grave is digging, and my name is written in the black book of death.’ This differs greatly to that of ‘A Tell Tale Heart’ where we find short, snappy sentences full of eccentricity and bizarreness. How, then am I mad? Hearken! And observe how healthily, how calmly I can tell the whole story’, these two quotes have a contrasting effec

He clearly believes he can hear the heartbeat of the deceased, this triggers a random, frantic confession, which is screamed out in one sentence! It happens this way because he thinks that the police know and are pretending not to be able to hear the heartbeat, it is a figment of his imagination though.

The truth comes out quite quickly, but for different reasons in both stories. In ‘A Tell Tale Heart’ we hear how a neighbour had heard a shriek at some unearthly hour that night, and had consequently alerted the police who paid a visit to the elderly mans house. Where the murderer is feeling so confident about his crime, he invites them in and even places their chairs directly above the concealed body. However, all goes drastically wrong when his mind begins playing tricks on him and he subconsciously hears a persistent heart beat in his head-‘ A low, dull, quick sound much such as the sound a watch makes when enveloped in cotton’

In both stories the victims pose no threat whatsoever to their killers, it seems most peculiar that they are pursued by some deep-rooted personal vendetta against them, In this way ‘A Tell Tale Heart’ and ‘A Confession’ are relatively similar. As is the array of calmness conveyed by them both as the stories unfold.

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