How Does Edgar Allan Poe Use Alcohol In The Black Cat

Drip! Drip! What if on your hand was a weapon coated with blood that was used to killed someone you know? What could have cause this? Desire? Anger? How would you be able to have a normal life again? Everyone has an urge to do things that they shouldn’t, even when they know the consequences. In the story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, it features an animal-loving husband whose normal life is forever changed by his consumption of alcohol. With alcohol seemingly as the authority of his life, perverseness takes effect and causes him to commit numerous appalling acts including the physical abuse of those around him and even the murder of his cat Pluto. As time wears on, he adopts another black cat similar to Pluto, in which he later grows to despise leading up to …show more content…
Before, he had been hiding this hatred by being on good terms with his wife, but poor decisions in life brought forth this inner perverseness. His relationship with his wife, thanks to those thanks to it, has now soured and turned into something horrible and abusive. He would even later find himself killing his wife cold-blooded and hiding the body without any shred of guilt. This shows that no matter how kind and loving one may used to be, every human including even the nicest of ones has some sort of perverseness, wanting to do wrong just for the sake of doing it, and that making the right choices in life will keep it from unleashing out. Another example of irony used in the story is when he adopts a new pet cat and later grows irritated by the cat’s devotion and love for him, when that is the exact reason he loved and owned so many animals in the first place. In the middle of the story, after murdering his cat Pluto and was filled with remorse for his actions, he was once again drinking at a tavern. However, he finds a black cat which was nearly identical to the one he had murdered. He later