Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock have insane characters in their stories. Some examples are Edgar Allen Poe's William Wilson in "William Wilson," and the narrator of the "Tell-Tale Heart"; and Alfred Hitchcock's Bruno in Strangers on a Train. These characters have similar foundations for their unstable sanity; however, each character had his own peculiar motives which led to this unsound ... voice telling him to do what he did not want to drove him mad. The narrator of the "Tell-Tale Heart" is mad in a similar manner as William Wilson. The narrator adores the old man with whom he lives w...

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