The story is a terrifying tale that embodies Poe’s ideas about the morbid workings of the criminal mind. Poe is said to believed that criminals are disposed to give themselves away not because of guilt but from the foresee pleasure of defying virtuous authority. The narrator relishes the idea that his crime of hanging his cat Pluto is a sin “beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the most merciful and most terrible god” (Poe E. A., The Black Cat, 2015). His otherwise unaccountable act of preventing the police from deviating and rapping on the bricks that hide his wife’s body is driven by the narrator’s desire to “cap” his “triumph.” (Poe, 2015).
At the very start of this story, the narrator says “for the most wild yet homely narrative
At the very start of this story, the narrator says “for the most wild yet homely narrative