The Symbols Of Animal Images In Allen Poe's Poe

In Poe's seventy novels, the works involving animal images account for a large proportion, while some of the works are mainly human beings, but in the process of creation, Poe has made animal descriptions, which also make people have some animal characteristics. We can analyze the works of Poe by the following classification. By analyzing the animal images in Allen Poe's works and exploring the causes of these animal images, we can better grasp the connotation of Allen Poe's works and further understand his philosophy of creation.
First is animal imagery that symbolizes the inner feelings of human beings. Poe's animal image is not an appearance as a metaphor, but as an individual existing between humans and animals. Such an existence can show …show more content…
The novel "The Black Cat" borrowed the meaning of "Pluto" from Greek mythology to the interpretation of the theme of the novel. The novel tells the story that “I” killed the black cat twice and then manslaughterde “my” wife which eventually ruined “my” own life. Poe uses symbolism to interpret human fears. In the western culture, the black cat is the incarnation of the Witch and the symbol of the omen and "Pluto" in the Greek myth is Hades. This makes the novel more a stagnation of death. When the darkness, fear and struggle in my heart are embodied by the white hair of the black cat's gallows, the black cat becomes the reference of human's inner moral strength. The protagonist could not eventually cover up the crime. When he had put the black cat into the wall and heard the "issued by the tomb of damnation and painful soul and cheer for the soul to hell demons together from the throat sound", he defeated the evil within reason, thus to the spiritual and moral ruin.For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe. Although the black cat involves the image of the animal in Greek mythology, it can not be seen that they are connected with Greek mythology. When the reader sees the title of " Sphinx", it is immediately associated with the story of the Greek mythology. On the one hand, in the works of Alan Poe, Sphinx is the name of a sphinx; on the other hand, in Greek mythology, Sphinx is the winged lion gorgon. The mythological character itself symbolizes terror and death. This makes the novel pervaded with the atmosphere of death, filled with an uneasy breath. Poe's works of animal imagery related to Greek mythology are symbolic in borrowing Greek mythology. In this way, some disturbing factors can be conveyed, and the power of the work is enhanced and it is more