Do not lie, there have been dark thoughts in your mind at one point in time or another, ideas that can take others into terror, but to you it brings solace. Edgar Allan Poe was not afraid to show the true but hidden thoughts that man suppresses on a daily basis. Written and published by Poe in 1843 The Black Cat was the story of an unnamed character’s progression of his insanity, the thirst to kill, and the undying revenge of his victims which lead to his own demise. Edgar Allan Poe used figurative language and symbolism in The Black Cat to enhance the main character's development in the story; this shows how true insanity cannot be trapped.
Insanity is nor learned nor taught it simply just manifest itself within, like an animal, the mind can …show more content…
In The Black Cat, the reader can see Poe used figurative language to acquire the idea of revenge across. “As if graven in the bas relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat. There was a rope upon the animal’s neck”(Poe). In this case, the reader sees that the new cat has come to avenge the first cat that had been murdered by showing its white images on its chest. The reader can see that this is foreshadowing and that retribution will be made. By reminding the narrator of what he has done, it showed how what had happened in the past will happen again in the future. As a result, the new cat takes revenge by taking something that the narrator once held dear. “I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot without a groan”(Poe). For this reason, this was the beginning of the end. The new cat knew what the narrator would do in the interest of his insanity. It was as if an eye for an eye, but an eye for a life as well. The act of revenge led to the narrator to fully develop his psychosis to the highest level, leading him to his death.
Edgar Allan Poe used figurative language and symbolism to show how dangerous the mind of the narrator had indeed become. As the reader saw in The Black Cat the narrator’s character had kept progressing or declining as the story went on. In view of of all the events that the narrator had faced or did not want face, this led the narrator never getting rid of his sickness. By Edgar Allan Poe never giving The Black Cat a content ending it leads to wonder who was the beast in this story the cat that took it too far or the narrator that could not help his own sick
Insanity is nor learned nor taught it simply just manifest itself within, like an animal, the mind can …show more content…
In The Black Cat, the reader can see Poe used figurative language to acquire the idea of revenge across. “As if graven in the bas relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat. There was a rope upon the animal’s neck”(Poe). In this case, the reader sees that the new cat has come to avenge the first cat that had been murdered by showing its white images on its chest. The reader can see that this is foreshadowing and that retribution will be made. By reminding the narrator of what he has done, it showed how what had happened in the past will happen again in the future. As a result, the new cat takes revenge by taking something that the narrator once held dear. “I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot without a groan”(Poe). For this reason, this was the beginning of the end. The new cat knew what the narrator would do in the interest of his insanity. It was as if an eye for an eye, but an eye for a life as well. The act of revenge led to the narrator to fully develop his psychosis to the highest level, leading him to his death.
Edgar Allan Poe used figurative language and symbolism to show how dangerous the mind of the narrator had indeed become. As the reader saw in The Black Cat the narrator’s character had kept progressing or declining as the story went on. In view of of all the events that the narrator had faced or did not want face, this led the narrator never getting rid of his sickness. By Edgar Allan Poe never giving The Black Cat a content ending it leads to wonder who was the beast in this story the cat that took it too far or the narrator that could not help his own sick