There was a famous author by the name of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe was not an ordinary man to say the least. He is famous for making stories that are very odd and dark. Two of some of his most famous short stories are “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat.” Both of these short stories have a certain theme and that theme is Madness. What is unique of these themes is that each narrator in the story is not influenced by the same things. Each narrator has his own sick and twisted way of going mad. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” we are not given the narrator’s name. What we know is that he admits to being rather nervous but he refuses to identify himself as mad. In the first sentence of the story the narrator says, “True! –nervous- very,
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In this story there are three different characters the narrator, the narrator’s wife, and the cat. The narrator is this story is also unnamed like the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” but this narrator is much calmer and rational. The narrator starts the story of by telling us that he is going to die tomorrow and wants us to know who he truly is. He says, “But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul.” (Poe “The Black Cat” 3) He tells us that before he was married he was loved dogs, but he married a woman who had plenty of cats. This narrator is very mellow and does not seem like the type to go mad then something unexpected comes up. The woman he married has a cat named Pluto. The narrators says, “Pluto—this was the cat’s name—was my favorite pet and playmate. I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever I went about the house. It was even with difficulty that could prevent him from following me through the streets.” (Poe “The Black Cat” 4) Now as you can see he loves this cat, but he starts to get into a habit of drinking. The narrators becomes a drunk and it ruins his life. The reason for this character going mad is from the alcohol. An author by the name of Wing-Chi Ki M. says, Poe 's narrator is "mad" because his behavior deviates from all the moral maxims in traditional ethics, which is on the side of the good and the social order, while his drive ethics is on the side of chaos, madness, and death.” (Wing-Chi Diabolical Evil and "The Black Cat"
In this story there are three different characters the narrator, the narrator’s wife, and the cat. The narrator is this story is also unnamed like the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” but this narrator is much calmer and rational. The narrator starts the story of by telling us that he is going to die tomorrow and wants us to know who he truly is. He says, “But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul.” (Poe “The Black Cat” 3) He tells us that before he was married he was loved dogs, but he married a woman who had plenty of cats. This narrator is very mellow and does not seem like the type to go mad then something unexpected comes up. The woman he married has a cat named Pluto. The narrators says, “Pluto—this was the cat’s name—was my favorite pet and playmate. I alone fed him, and he attended me wherever I went about the house. It was even with difficulty that could prevent him from following me through the streets.” (Poe “The Black Cat” 4) Now as you can see he loves this cat, but he starts to get into a habit of drinking. The narrators becomes a drunk and it ruins his life. The reason for this character going mad is from the alcohol. An author by the name of Wing-Chi Ki M. says, Poe 's narrator is "mad" because his behavior deviates from all the moral maxims in traditional ethics, which is on the side of the good and the social order, while his drive ethics is on the side of chaos, madness, and death.” (Wing-Chi Diabolical Evil and "The Black Cat"