The Black Cat Argumentative Essay

“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe is a short story about a man who struggled with depression, alcoholism, and a mental disorder but his cat calmed him. However, the man killed the cat he loved and later a similar cat came to him which had an abnormal resemblance to the past cat of his. This cat reminded the man of how cruel and mean he was to Pluto, the past cat, therefor he tried to kill the cat but instead killed his wife. My position is that he is insane and guilty.
The narrator was insane because he says and you can infer that he is an alcoholism, depressed, and has a mental illness. In the Black Cat short story the narrator says, “I grew, day by day, moodier, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others…. But my disease grew upon me—for what disease is like Alcohol!... Even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill …show more content…
They also argue that he is just a drunk but he still is aware of his actions. Another argument is that when your drunk you’re not in the right mind but still know what is happening. This couldn’t be because he specifically says he had a disease and infers that he didn’t know what he was doing and he didn’t fully understand his actions. He states in the quote that he forgot what he was doing and couldn’t control himself. Also if he was drinking, alcohol combined with a mental disease can make the disease worse or even completely change the person and make him act bi-polar.
In conclusion, he was insane and guilty but others believe that he was sane. This is right because of all the ideas and evidence that was found. So because he drank and had a mental disorder, it made him act out, unconscious, and not in the right mental state. Whenever he drank it made it worse which led to him doing bad things and not understanding them to a point where he almost never understood what he was