Black cat

short story, “The Black Cat.” The story follows a nameless narrator sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, as he begins to detail the events leading to her murder. He recalls his descent into insanity caused by alcohol, how he murders several family pets, including his favorite, a black cat named Pluto, and finally the murder of his wife. Along with this story, Poe is known for having several regular themes in his works: madness, the…

In “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Prey” by Richard Matheson, and “the Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, the authors all have a common trend of creating displays of violence resulting in blood or the loss of life in their works to show physical repercussions to hardships or mistakes. In addition to the consequences of physical violence, the characters also go through seemingly inescapable scenarios stemming from their own or other’s emotions. In “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen…

There are many lines in the story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe that insist he is insane including his mental illness and his alcoholism issue. This story is told from the perspective of a man in a jail cell. He has an unusual relationship with his pets and his wife but a very special bond with his cat “Pluto”. He feeds the cat, plays with the cat, and cuddles with the cat. He does all these things until he thinks it is too clingy. So, one night after he returned home from the bar he…

sense of reality is the narrator in the black cat because he is a killer of not only his cat, of his own wife that only tried to stop him from doing a terrible deed he also continues to defend himself saying he’s not mad throughout the story. This alone proves how much of a distorted person he is in his sense of reality. In the stories the black cat and the monkey's paw the Narrator and Mr.White both have a distorted sense of reality. In the story the black cat the main character…

Creative Title Everything that happens in the world happens for a reason. Most of the time it isn’t asked for but depending on how it is used can either create positive or negative consequences. The many lessons learned throughout the book and stories are created from the way the characters handled the situations thrown at them. The Night Circus and The raven share the gothic element supernatural. For example “The gears float back to the watch, setting into place, until the watch is complete…

The black cat and the tell tale heart both had a very similar theme but they differed in many ways the black cat dealt with alcoholism would the tell tale heart delt with a misconception that drove him to a paranoid state that made him insane. In the black cat the the narirator gets drunk and ends up geting drunk and atacts the cat when the cat trys to fight back the the narirator grabes him by the trouat and cuts his eye out this show that achouhall can make you do terrible things and in the…

“The Black Cat” short story by Edgar A. Poe resembles another story that he has written; The Black Cat resembles “The Tell-Tale Heart” in various ways. The first echo between the two stories is the way the narrator presents himself from the beginning of the story. In both stories the narrator is trying to convince the reader, and himself, that he is sane. This style of introduction that is trying to persuade the reader that he is levelheaded, is consistent between the two stories. Along with…

this kind of man who is an alcoholic and is easy to lose his temper, especially when he is drunk. I am gloomy with the man’s behavior and have pity on the black cat and the man’s wife. When I read The Black Cat, I saw a psycho, a murderer who cruelly killed a black cat loved by his wife, then brutishly murdered his wife instead of his second cat, and hid her carcass in the wall. I was confused with the behavior of the man who did all that damn things and wondering that what a terrible thing…

As I hung my cat from the tree I didn't know who I was or what I was doing. (Poe, Edgar Allen) It is clear that the narrator in The Black Cat has psychopathic tendencies because he shows poor behavior control, need for stimulation and pathological lying. ("Psychopath") The ways he shows poor behavior control is when the cat wanted some attention he cut out his eyeball. Another example of poor behavior control is he was trying to kill the second cat because it was walking around his feet, his…

even when they know the consequences. In the story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, it features an animal-loving husband whose normal life is forever changed by his consumption of alcohol. With alcohol seemingly as the authority of his life, perverseness takes effect and causes him to commit numerous appalling acts including the physical abuse of those around him and even the murder of his cat Pluto. As time wears on, he adopts another black cat similar to Pluto, in which he later grows to…