In two Edgar Allan Poe short stories, "The Black Cat", and "The Tell Tale Heart," Poe takes readers into the murky territories of the strange world of insanity and shows how each narrator thinks and proves themselves through their actions. Poe writes using three ideas: the inability to admit that the narrators were wrong in their actions, guilt and their confession. The foundation of the story is based on criminal act that each narrator feels or does these in the stories.

To start with, there is the guilty mind of each narrator and how they try to overcome their guilt. In both stories, guilt takes ahold of the characters when they are trying to explains the circumstances of their hideous actions. For example, in "The Tell Tale Heart" the narrator feels that he has committed the perfect crime and is going to get away with the murders that...