Each of the characters is compelled by a desperate emotion, misguided and informed by a twisted perception of reality. For Emily, killing Homer Barron and keeping his rotting corpse, sleeping beside his dead body.
The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart stalks his victim in his bedroom, observing him nightly until he decides to kill him.
Emily is driven to kill Homer Barron to stop him from leaving her, so that she won't be alone. The narrator must kill the old man because of his sick eye. He decides that the old man has an evil eye capable of putting a curse on him.
Each character's motivation comes from an unstable mind, both characters are mentally unstable. They are both delusional and have a distorted perception of reality.
Both victims are innocent, they, in no way, instigate their own deaths. Neither victim deserved to die, they are sacrificed to satisfy a demented need that cannot be fulfilled in any other way, because both the narrator and Miss Emily are isolated from society and exist in a fantasy world of their own making, where they are compelled to commit murder.
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