In The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl by Ray Bradbury and The Tell Ess

In The takings at the Bottom of the Bowl by pecker Bradbury and The TellTale Hear by Edgar Allen Poe, both(prenominal) authors have to prevail on _or_ upon thereader that the main characters is mad. How do they do that? Whichportrayal is to a greater extent strong? Why?1.The two stories that argon going to be compared and contrasted areThe Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl by Ray Bradbury and The TellTale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. Both stories are about murder and howthe manslayers react after the killings. In the story The Tell TaleHeart, Edgar Allen Poe writes about the murderers regression and fearof an ageing mans clouded eye that drives him to kill. When officers ofthe law come to question him, he imagines noises from the departeddismembered body, which forces him to admit his crime. In the secondstory, The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl by Ray Bradbury anothermurder has been committed. The author uses flash backs to explainwhere the murderer has been so that he could wi pe out all traces ofhis fingerprints and presence at the house, his search for gloves thenhis obsession with cleaning everywhere, which eventually leads to hisarrest. Both stories are about obsessions, in one the obsession causedthe murder, in the other the obsession was with cleaning a government agency alltraces of the murderer is present at the horizon of the crime after themurder. My aim will be to show how both murderers were mad, or becamemad.2.In the story The Tell Tale Heart, the murderer has no precedent formurder other than his obsession. One of the old mans eyes, wasclouded over and resembled a vultures eye, so the narrator could havebeen mad even before he killed the old man. In The Fruit at theBottom of the Bowl, the murderer was goaded to jealousy... ...chandelierwith its long pearls of rainbow glass.He becomes haunted by Huxley hearing once more Huxleys voice,remembering all the touchings and gesturings, before loosing control.Acton sobbed heavily he hurled the pot tery against the wall proto(prenominal) in the morning after the murder Acton was found in the beanthe entire house was polished to a brilliance everythingglittered. Everything shone, everything was bright. On the way outActon polished the front door knob with his handkerchief.This showed the way he lost control after the murder and hisobsesiveness led him to unwiseness by the thought of what he had done.Although he was not mad at the beginning we could see how he becamemore and more mad as the story went on.This is better than the other story The Tell-Tale heart when the manshowed sign of lunacy from the beginning of the story.