Edgar Allan Poe authored “The Black Cat,” the story was published in 1845, and it is a gothic piece of literature. The first thing we learn is that it is written in first person, and the narrator is nameless. He is going die the next day for something we do not know what for yet. He is writing events down which is says, “these events have terrified – have tortured – have destroyed me” (1).
From the beginning of the story it is gathered that he did something horrible when he states, “to-day I would unburthen my soul” (1). He wants to unburden or unload what he is harboring deep inside, so that he can be cleansed and redeemed. The narrator describes his younger year when he was kinder and more humane. He had a love for animals that started …show more content…
The cat is also missing an eye like Pluto was. The difference is that is has a white mark on cat’s breast. The new cat would follow him everywhere like Pluto did. He quickly begins to loathe the new cat. However, he did not hate this cat in an evil way in the beginning. “I am almost ashamed to own – yes, even in this felon’s cell, I am almost ashamed to own” (4).
His wife keeps trying to get his attention about the white mark that is on the cat’s breast. The white mark had an outline of an object. “the image of a hideous – of a ghastly thing – of the GALLOWS” (5). A gallows is a device that was used to hang people. The second has a symbol of Pluto’s murder on its body. This new cat is a symbol of the man’s guilt that he harbored for killing Pluto. This cat is a visual reminder of his crime, and how alcohol has changed his personality. It could also be giving us an assumption of how he is going to die since it is …show more content…
It is my favorite one I have read during this class. I choose to do an analysis on it so I could understand the story better. I missed so many key details when I read it the first time. Doing the analysis made me think of what the story is actually about. The first time I read it I completely missed that he was writing it to unburden himself before he died. Writing his sins that he committed was his own form of redemption. The first time I read it I did not look up the word “gallows”, so I did not catch the significance of that. I just assumed he had a unique white spot. I did not realize it actually was marking of device that people get hung
From the beginning of the story it is gathered that he did something horrible when he states, “to-day I would unburthen my soul” (1). He wants to unburden or unload what he is harboring deep inside, so that he can be cleansed and redeemed. The narrator describes his younger year when he was kinder and more humane. He had a love for animals that started …show more content…
The cat is also missing an eye like Pluto was. The difference is that is has a white mark on cat’s breast. The new cat would follow him everywhere like Pluto did. He quickly begins to loathe the new cat. However, he did not hate this cat in an evil way in the beginning. “I am almost ashamed to own – yes, even in this felon’s cell, I am almost ashamed to own” (4).
His wife keeps trying to get his attention about the white mark that is on the cat’s breast. The white mark had an outline of an object. “the image of a hideous – of a ghastly thing – of the GALLOWS” (5). A gallows is a device that was used to hang people. The second has a symbol of Pluto’s murder on its body. This new cat is a symbol of the man’s guilt that he harbored for killing Pluto. This cat is a visual reminder of his crime, and how alcohol has changed his personality. It could also be giving us an assumption of how he is going to die since it is …show more content…
It is my favorite one I have read during this class. I choose to do an analysis on it so I could understand the story better. I missed so many key details when I read it the first time. Doing the analysis made me think of what the story is actually about. The first time I read it I completely missed that he was writing it to unburden himself before he died. Writing his sins that he committed was his own form of redemption. The first time I read it I did not look up the word “gallows”, so I did not catch the significance of that. I just assumed he had a unique white spot. I did not realize it actually was marking of device that people get hung