'Comparing the Open Window and the Tell-Tale Heart\r'

'Using the Ideas of Northrup Frye to Compare The spread out window and The Tell-Tale shopping centre Brett Eiffes According to Northrup Frye’s book, The digit of Criticism, there are twain disparate modes of prose: the accost and the novel. In the case of pitiableer prose he calls them the taradiddle and the condensed report card. The short story, The open Window by Saki, and the floor, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, demonstrate these ii modes of prose fiction. While practice session The Open Window I found it a more realistic and extroverted story opus the Tell-Tale Heart was more of an unlikely and introverted story.These two different stories each show different aspects of the tale and the short story. Both of these stories were set in a house however, we know that The Tell-Tale Heart is set in a house in the past as result of a few details Edgar Allan Poe reveals. For example, the vocaliser uses a lantern and he similarly states, â€Å"the shutt ers were close fasten” (2). We are also not entirely certainly why the speaker is in the Old humanity’s house or why he belongs there. This tale is set in the past in a mysterious location, both of which are fibreistics of the tale.In contrast, The Open Window is set in a lavish, other(a) twentieth century English home. The story has a more contemporary setting compared to that of The Tell-Tale Heart. Although the stories both understand place in a house, the time in which they are set is different. These two stories also shed two different viewpoints. The Tell-Tale Heart is a first-person narrative, which relies on the narrator, while The Open Window has an omniscient third-person viewpoint. These viewpoints forge the papers, developed by Northrup Frye, of the tale and of the short story.The types of characters introduced in each of these stories is different, in that Saki presents us with presumptive, common people while Edgar Allan Poe presents us with char acters who are large than life. The main character of Vera in The Open Window has a mix of good and bad feature articles. She is introduced as â€Å"a very self-possessed young skirt of fifteen” (140). However, we then learn that Vera lied to Mr. Nuttel approximately the passing of the Sappleton family.We see two different sides of this character, the calm and collected fifteen-year-old girl and the story telling liar. Vera is seen as a typical teenage girl, messing with people and lay on a nice smile. She is a believable everyday person. We are never told who the main character presented in The Tell-Tale Heart is; however, we do know he is narrating the story. This mysterious character is larger than life and he convinces the readers that he is mentally insane. This is proven when he shrieks, â€Å"’Villains! ’… ‘ inter no more!I admit the enactment! †tear up the planks! -here, here! †it is the beating of his terrible heart! †™â€ (6). This is often a common characteristic of characters in tales. Both of the main characters present in these stories fit the ideas of Northrup Frye. The different maculations demonstrated in these stories also reflect the ideas presented by Northrup Frye. The Open Window is a possible story in which the characters maneuver slightly a central situation. The central situation is the idea of the Sappleton family dying in a shooting accident.This is different compared to the plot demonstrated in The Tale-Tell Heart, which allows for the suggestion of unrealistic forces or powers, for example supernatural elements. The plot of this story leans towards fantasy. The plot in The Open Window reflects the characteristics of the short story, while the plot in The Tell-Tale Heart reflects the characteristics of the tale. When compared, these two stories are tragically different. They are both genuine examples of the two different types of prose fiction.The Open Window dead exe mplifies the short story, a contemporary, realistic setting and plot with believable, everyday characters. In contrast The Tell-Tale Heart reflects the ideas of the tale by presenting a supernatural plot occurring in the past. These two stories reflect the ideas of prose of Northrup Frye. As a part of Moorestown Friends School, I affirm my honesty, academic integrity, and responsibility to the develop community by neither giving nor receiving unpermitted sanction during this assessment. ______________________________________________\r\n'