Devin Francois
Robinson
English 102 2 May 2016
Comparison of the Narration of The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado In the two short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narration is very similar. Both stories have narrators that are insane, and unreliable. In " The Cask of Amontillado", Montresor is the narrator and in "The Black Cat", the narrator's name is unknown. They both show their love for inhumanity to humans and animals by the murders they commit. In "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator, Montresor, informs the reader immediately that someone named Fortunato has injured him many times and has recently insulted him. He decides that he will take no more from him. He then vows revenge …show more content…
Eventually, he gets married to a woman who also loves animals. They get a variety of pets. One of the pets is a large, smart, black cat named who they named Pluto. The narrator eventually starts drinking, which leads to his personality changing, and in a negative way. He then begins abusing his wife and pets verbally and physically. One night, he comes home from a party very drunk. He thinks Pluto is avoiding him, so he takes the cat and cuts his eye out. After a while the cat's eye recovered. "The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain." (CITATIONNEEDED) The cat walked around the house as usual, except now he avoided the narrator. "I had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me. But this feeling soon gave place to irritation. And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS." (CITATIONNEEDED) He then hangs poor Pluto from a tree in the garden. He claims that his reason for doing it was precisely because he knew it was wrong. That night, his house catches on fire and burns down. Only the man, his wife, and one servant survive. However, they lose all
Robinson
English 102 2 May 2016
Comparison of the Narration of The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado In the two short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narration is very similar. Both stories have narrators that are insane, and unreliable. In " The Cask of Amontillado", Montresor is the narrator and in "The Black Cat", the narrator's name is unknown. They both show their love for inhumanity to humans and animals by the murders they commit. In "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator, Montresor, informs the reader immediately that someone named Fortunato has injured him many times and has recently insulted him. He decides that he will take no more from him. He then vows revenge …show more content…
Eventually, he gets married to a woman who also loves animals. They get a variety of pets. One of the pets is a large, smart, black cat named who they named Pluto. The narrator eventually starts drinking, which leads to his personality changing, and in a negative way. He then begins abusing his wife and pets verbally and physically. One night, he comes home from a party very drunk. He thinks Pluto is avoiding him, so he takes the cat and cuts his eye out. After a while the cat's eye recovered. "The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true, a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain." (CITATIONNEEDED) The cat walked around the house as usual, except now he avoided the narrator. "I had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me. But this feeling soon gave place to irritation. And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS." (CITATIONNEEDED) He then hangs poor Pluto from a tree in the garden. He claims that his reason for doing it was precisely because he knew it was wrong. That night, his house catches on fire and burns down. Only the man, his wife, and one servant survive. However, they lose all