The Black Cat

as a unique and creepy writer. In two of his stories, The “Black Cat” and the "Tell Tale Heart" are one in the same by having the same ending with killing the ones they loved, hiding the bodies within their own home and in the end giving themselves away, the only thing different is how they did it and their reason for doing it. In the “Black Cat” and the "Tell Tale Heart" both lead up to killing those whom they loved. In the “Black Cat” he blamed the murder on alcohol, when he said “But my…

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” is one of the most fascinating stories among his collection of short stories. Taking readers into a murderer’s mind, Poe explores the darkest depths of the human psyche as the main character experiences bouts of random, intense murderous rage, paranoia, trickery and superstitious behavior, as well as remorse and powerful love for his beloved wife. Accordingly, the author’s work is not removed from the author himself: indeed, the story’s aspects of…

classify or describe any story created by imagination. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are considered a work of fiction, they entangle the mind of the reader by creating an alternative reality and exploring the horror genre. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”, are two stories that share many similarities and differences in terms of themes. They are surrounded by elements of insanity, murder and by horrifying nighttime scenes, it adds a morbid touch and keeps the audience on the edge of their…

In Nagel’s reflection on what it’s like to be a bat, he delves into a number of aspects of the mind-body issue, demonstrating just how complex the concept is. In his argument, Nagel highlights that consciousness, or lack thereof in some arguments, is at the centre of the mind-body problem, and that is what makes it so difficult to approach and pinpoint. Nagel’s argument spans a number of different topics, analyzing the existence of consciousness and discussing physicalism, behaviourism, and more…

his short stories and poem. Most noteably his short story, The Black Cat, where the narrators actions are influenced by the demon in the bottle or perhaps influenced by the animal that story is titled after, the black cat that haunts him. Poes chooses a distinct name for the first black cat in the story, Pluto, the cat shares the name with the Roman god of the underworld. This is no coincidence since this is the beast that the…

Throughout the novel The Perfume- the story of a murderer, the author Patrick Süskind explores and displays his protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille’s journey from an orphan to the greatest perfumer in France with an array of different ways, ranging from an animal to a God. Süskind uses a variety of literary techniques such as zoomorphism, allusions, and imagery to reveal Grenouille’s fickle disposition. Consequently, the effect of making divine, animalistic and childlike comparisons of the…

Aristotle once said, “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” Of these seven motives, two of them stand out as having been used in the short horror stories The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and The Monkey’s Paw by W.W Jacobs; compulsion in Poe’s, and desire in Jacobs’s. When further analyzed, three topics present themselves as being prominent and necessary to compare: the points of view within these stories,…

Monday, August 3, 2015 Chapter One This chapter began with the narrator, Huckleberry Finn, narrating his account of the events in the previous book, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. Huckleberry reminds the reader that he received a share in the treasure found in the previous book and how he still receives interest on the gold as it is stored in the bank. Huckleberry also speaks about how was adopted by Widow Douglas and lives with her and how her decent and predictable way of life goes against…

are: “The Black Cat”and “The Masque of the Red Death”. In “The Black Cat” the narrator slowly goes insane by his pet cat. He soon tried to kill it and ended up killing his wife instead. The narrator decided to hide his wife’s body in an old cellar wall that was under his house. He got caught by the police due to a loud scream that came from the wall where the body was, turns out…

Black Cat was born as Maahes, into a pride of vicious raiders. The pride had no mercy, even for their own, allowing the slaughter of their sick and wounded, so that their pelts and bones could be of some use to the pride. Maahes had two siblings, both of which were weak, and prone to illness - he fought continually to keep them safe from their own pridemates, and in doing so, earned the ire of many of the crueler lions around him. Each time the pride ran out of food, a raid would be led to…