Recapitulation of “The Black Cat” by E. A. Poe
Gothic Literature has been around since 1765 producing barbarity and alarming the readers. These stories are meant to create ideas and pictures in one’s head that are distasteful. Many authors such as Edgar Allan Poe achieve to fright people and yet make them read on more of the novel. In “The Black Cat” a man loves animals as much as alcohol and physically abusing his wife. He suddenly grows a strange desire to torture his pet cat, Pluto. The author portrayed the author as a lunatic in a creepy yet intense tone who abuses his cat in his own house. Meanwhile his wife doesn’t show sign of care towards her husband’s actions. The actions he performs are cruel and is expected for a man who abuses his wife and alcohol.
What really allows us to comprehend the story is the setting because it reflects the character(s) emotions and actions. For instance, the author verbalized “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.”(pg 1) Meaning he has done something quite awful to be charged with death penalty. The day he killed his wife occurs later on in the story. …show more content…
The setting, characters, and events are well-crafted. The narrator and cat are an odd mix but Edgar Allan Poe managed directed the novel utterly well. In “The Black Cat’ the author displayed a story about perseverance and how a man was sick enough to cut his own cat’s eye out and be remorseless about it. In Gothic Literature the novel basically has to frighten you and make you shiver. The setting and tone of the novel has to combine with the type of topic you are trying to talk about. Also incorporate characters with hidden secrets or a dark past. Then finally, create events that are mind blowing and scare the readers but makes them read on. Gothic literature is very interesting and fun to read but contains romance and terror in a horrific
Gothic Literature has been around since 1765 producing barbarity and alarming the readers. These stories are meant to create ideas and pictures in one’s head that are distasteful. Many authors such as Edgar Allan Poe achieve to fright people and yet make them read on more of the novel. In “The Black Cat” a man loves animals as much as alcohol and physically abusing his wife. He suddenly grows a strange desire to torture his pet cat, Pluto. The author portrayed the author as a lunatic in a creepy yet intense tone who abuses his cat in his own house. Meanwhile his wife doesn’t show sign of care towards her husband’s actions. The actions he performs are cruel and is expected for a man who abuses his wife and alcohol.
What really allows us to comprehend the story is the setting because it reflects the character(s) emotions and actions. For instance, the author verbalized “But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.”(pg 1) Meaning he has done something quite awful to be charged with death penalty. The day he killed his wife occurs later on in the story. …show more content…
The setting, characters, and events are well-crafted. The narrator and cat are an odd mix but Edgar Allan Poe managed directed the novel utterly well. In “The Black Cat’ the author displayed a story about perseverance and how a man was sick enough to cut his own cat’s eye out and be remorseless about it. In Gothic Literature the novel basically has to frighten you and make you shiver. The setting and tone of the novel has to combine with the type of topic you are trying to talk about. Also incorporate characters with hidden secrets or a dark past. Then finally, create events that are mind blowing and scare the readers but makes them read on. Gothic literature is very interesting and fun to read but contains romance and terror in a horrific