The Black Cat Essay

Washington Irving and “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe comment on the imperfections of American society by exploring concepts of valuing the individual over group, favoring ignorant decisions over logical ones, and the skewed view of women in everyday life. During the peak of Romanticism, literature would often have characters who often reject reasoning to mirror the ignorance of the everyday American citizen. The narrator from “The Black Cat” is someone…

The unnamed protagonist loves this cat to the extent that he alone feeds, plays, and attends to the cat. Their bond was so strong that the cat followed the unnamed narrator everywhere he went in his home. Pluto was his favorite pet, and even when he maltreated his wife, he never maltreated Pluto. However, the unnamed narrator suffered from…

narrator's thoughts as well as when he is doing something that would be disturbing to most readers. The first example of the gothic element, grotesque, would be when the narrator kills Pluto. One night, after returning home drunk, the narrator grasps the cat by its throat and with a pen knife, cut out one of its eyes. “When reason returned with the morning—when I had slept off the fumes of the night’s debauch—I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I…

punishment. But this is not true. The inescapable suffering trapped inside a wrongdoer can cause more issues than is believed. “The Black Cat” is a tale of the woes which plague a man as he goes insane from paranoia of his wrongdoings. In addition he has an alcohol problem and undergoes a traumatic transformation as he is plagued by his murder of his wife and multiple beloved cats. The character is not incriminated under the law, so it seems like he is free. However, the inner turmoil which…

Hush, a suspenseful thriller. Is where a young, deaf writer (Maddie) gets her home invaded by a killer with a crossbow. He hunts her down in a game of cat and mouse, where she is a prisoner in her own home. On the other hand, there is the film, Don’t Breathe, where three thieves decide to break into a blind war veteran’s home and steal three hundred thousand dollars that were left to him by his dead daughter, but they soon discover that he is not as vulnerable as they thought. In a fight for…

The guardian of the underworld, Cerberus is the three headed guard beast to the underworld, for all eternity he has kept the dead who passed the River Styx from escaping. Cerberus was the product of the the fearsome monster who stole Zeus’s reign, Typhon, and the mother of monsters, Echidna. His body layout was not entirely just a dog he also had the claws of a lion and the tail of a serpent. Often appearing myths Cerberus was known to be unmatched by any power that came to the underworld and…

In one of the setsuwa tale, “THE LITTLE SPIDER” (#6), Kanetoshi, a former governor was granted special permission to audition at the palace. In the following sentence, “The coughing and choking fit that seized him then made the emperor and his officials almost split their sides laughing. Having made a terrible fool of himself, the poor man was never asked to the palace again”. In this the main character is Kanetoshi, he meant to be negative light because he does not know what’s going on in the…

Horace Wadpole’s “A Gothic Story” in 1764. The use of the word was intended to be a joke, until Poe picked up the style and made it popular. Some of what Poe used to capture attention was unreliable narrators, macabre, and gloomy settings. In “The Black Cat”, Poe uses unreliable narrators by using the line “For the most wild, yet most homely narrative I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief”. This gives the reader the impression that his story may not be true. He also says he…

others stories leave readers asking themselves: “did he really just write such a story”. Through Poe 's cold hearted tone and first person narrative, he sets a dark mood. Poe creates a dark mood on his short story “Black Cat”. Poe uses a cold hearted tone when he talks about killing the cat and his wife. It is cold hearted because he does not hesitate once while writing such cruel things. The narrator of the short story says “hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a…

the superstitions are based around animals, such as the black cat, which would be easy for someone to play off of. One superstition is the black cat; if a black cat crosses the path of a person it will bring them bad luck. By being a shapeshifter, becoming a cat would be a simple task. While a being a cat they could run around darting in front of people, until they find someone who will not cross the path. When that person is found the cat would follow them around…