The Black Cat

“The Raven” and “The Black Cat” can be known to be very similar if broken down. One similarity people can realize with his stories are the unreliable and unknown narrators. Poe always doesn’t give a great description of the character telling the story. At the end of his stories, the reader can always tell that the unknown character has something to do with Poe’s life. Both “The Raven” and “The Black Cat” are about insanity. The unknown character in “The Raven”…

embodies the essence of the movement. Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is from the perspective of a crazed narrator that kills an old-man in order to rid himself the torment of looking at his eye. Poe’s “The Black Cat” is another short story where the narrator commits murder, killing his cat and unexpectedly his wife. Poe explores his inevitable breakdown into insanity through the use of these gothic pieces of literature, centralizing on the elements of murder, death and madness. Poe…

Devin Francois Robinson English 102 2 May 2016 Comparison of the Narration of The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado In the two short stories "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narration is very similar. Both stories have narrators that are insane, and unreliable. In " The Cask of Amontillado", Montresor is the narrator and in "The Black Cat", the narrator's name is unknown. They both show their love for inhumanity to humans and animals by the murders…

on an argument they had with a friend: whether or not a cat was still considered part of the ‘black cats are unlucky’ superstition if it wasn’t entirely black. This led into a discussion about what qualified as a black cat and a discussion about to what lengths people believe in and adjust their behavior according to the superstition. Eventually, the dissemination of fake news, public reactions to that news, social media, and the black cat debate were combined and the piece began to…

They included a lot of sorrow, death, hate, dead coming back to life and fear. Two of his most famous stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” are plagued with all of the famous typical characteristics of any Poe short story and have many similarities and differences with themes, views and motifs. “The Black Cat” is a typically dark and evil story by Poe. “The Black Cat” possesses an unreliable borderline insane narrator that is stricken with paranoia. The unnamed narrator in this…

Rationale and scope: - Why is something as beautiful as a black cat considered to bring bad luck? I remember this time, when I saw a band of children throwing stones at a cat, which was pitch black on the streets because of the belief that their parents have passed on to them, that black cats bring bad luck. Superstitions are irrational and I think a change must be made. The main reason why I am choosing this topic is because it is something that isn't spoken about on an everyday basis,…

My favorite piece out of the Edgar Allan Poe's three selections is “The Black Cat” because the story is more horrifying and less predictable than the other two stories. Not only because of the length of the piece, the story has more opportunities for the reader to sympathize with the narrator, including being an animal lover. In contrast to the other short stories, the respective narrators of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are literally characterized as a felon or a…

In “The-Tell Tale Heart”, the narrator describes himself as a caretaker for an old man and his house. In “The Black Cat” the narrator describes himself as a wealthy, animal loving man. What does this have to do with suspense? You’ll soon see. In both stories, the narrators in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” are portrayed as people who are insane and murderous, and despite appearing normal, they both state (whether it be directly or indirectly) that they are mentally unstable. In “The…

mental disorder. In the short story, “The Black Cat”, the unnamed narrator experiencers very jumpy emotions for animals, especially for his/her cat . Also, there is a section of the story where he/she may be experiencing some hallucinations. In the poem, “The Raven”, the (also) unnamed narrator experiences jumpy emotions for the raven. Also, all of the voices and other things he hears isn’t something that people normally hear. In the two stories, “The Black Cat” and “The Raven” I think that the…

Deadly Sins of a Heartbeat and a Cat People always think of murder being something that happens out in the open, and isn’t planned but that is not always the case. It always happens that they think that murder is a justification of getting revenge or picking someone at random, but that too is also wrong. Murder doesn’t have to be planned and it doesn’t need to be out in the open to be considered a crime. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe describes this case very…