Perception vs. Reality: Quarter 1 L.D.C. Prompt
Many people know who Edgar Allen Poe is, the astonishingly dark writer who wrote of insanity and death. Edgar Allen wrote dark stories, but his life was equally gloomy. He grew up fatherless and his mom died of tuberculosis when he was two. His foster mother also died of tuberculosis along with his first love. This quarter, we read 2 of Poe's stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”. Each of the main characters were insane, but on different levels. The narrator in the “Black Cat” has a distorted sense of reality because of drink, superstition and insanity, but the narrator in the “Tell Tale Heart” has a distorted sense of reality because of his imagination and insanity. In …show more content…
If the narrator in the black cat did not drink, his problems would have never started. The narrator said, “You see, I was slowly developing a weakness for alcohol, that cursed poison that has destroyed so many lives.” Judging by that quote, I think that he was completely aware his awful habits, even when he was doing it, not only when was in jail. Because of alcohol, he did many terrible things. The first bad think alcohol causes him do was cut the eyeball of the Pluto, the first black cat. If had not done that unlawful deed, he would not have felt the need to kill the cat, which would not start his streak of bad luck. Also, alcohol caused him to be mean to his wife, who was a “faithful and loving wife”. The Narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart,” however, had a distorted sense of reality because of his hallucinations. In the short story during the part when the police officers were talking, he experienced many odd illusions. These illusions included seeing the old man’s wheelchair move, and his disassembled corpse, which the narrator had cleverly hidden under the floorboards disassembled corpse move. But most important of all, he heard the old man’s heartbeat, which caused him to give himself up to the police. Those were the second reasons why the narrators had distorted senses of
Many people know who Edgar Allen Poe is, the astonishingly dark writer who wrote of insanity and death. Edgar Allen wrote dark stories, but his life was equally gloomy. He grew up fatherless and his mom died of tuberculosis when he was two. His foster mother also died of tuberculosis along with his first love. This quarter, we read 2 of Poe's stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”. Each of the main characters were insane, but on different levels. The narrator in the “Black Cat” has a distorted sense of reality because of drink, superstition and insanity, but the narrator in the “Tell Tale Heart” has a distorted sense of reality because of his imagination and insanity. In …show more content…
If the narrator in the black cat did not drink, his problems would have never started. The narrator said, “You see, I was slowly developing a weakness for alcohol, that cursed poison that has destroyed so many lives.” Judging by that quote, I think that he was completely aware his awful habits, even when he was doing it, not only when was in jail. Because of alcohol, he did many terrible things. The first bad think alcohol causes him do was cut the eyeball of the Pluto, the first black cat. If had not done that unlawful deed, he would not have felt the need to kill the cat, which would not start his streak of bad luck. Also, alcohol caused him to be mean to his wife, who was a “faithful and loving wife”. The Narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart,” however, had a distorted sense of reality because of his hallucinations. In the short story during the part when the police officers were talking, he experienced many odd illusions. These illusions included seeing the old man’s wheelchair move, and his disassembled corpse, which the narrator had cleverly hidden under the floorboards disassembled corpse move. But most important of all, he heard the old man’s heartbeat, which caused him to give himself up to the police. Those were the second reasons why the narrators had distorted senses of