The Black Cat

In the stories “The Black cat”by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, both authors use the Dark Romantic elements of instinct vs reason, guilt vs sin, and supernatural to help the reader comprehend the plot of the story, and the development of the character. The First Romantic element, instinct vs reason is the most important element because it is used frequently in both stories.The abundant usage of this element helps the reader have a better understanding of…

exquisite horror of their reality” (Poe). Edgar Allan Poe harnesses the power of gothic horror literature in his disturbing“The Black Cat” and his famous “The Masque of the Red Death.” Both of these stories weave increasingly horrific tales of tragic consequences and altered states of mind. “The Black Cat” tells the tale of a frequent drunk who ends up killing both his cat and his wife in one such example of momentary insanity. “The Masque of the Red Death” follows a prince’s desperate attempt…

Poe’s “The Black Cat,” an unnamed narrator condemned to the death-row recounts the story of his downfall. His narrative begins several years ago as a young boy who was surrounded by pets and treated them with adoration. Marrying at a young age, the narrator introduces his wife to the joy of possessing pets, and they obtain several of them, including a black cat. As years pass by, his alcoholic tendencies incite violent physical abuse towards both his wife and his pets, but not the cat. However,…

Allen Poe uses point of view effectively in “The Black Cat.” “The Black Cat” was first published in the United Sates Saturday Post on August 19, 1843(Obaid). The narrator of the short story is in jail waiting to be executed the next day, and he wants to set the story straight on the crime that propelled him there. The narrator and his wife love pets and have a black cat named Pluto, but one night the drunk narrator digs the cat’s eyes out and hangs the cat on a tree soon later. That night the…

died of tuberculosis along with his first love. This quarter, we read two of Poe's stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”. Both of these stories have characters who killed a loved one or someone close to them. What is different between the two stories is in “The Tell Tale Heart” the narrator’s insanity caused him to kill while while the narrator in “The Black Cat” killed because of rage. I would argue that the narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” has the most distorted sense of…

Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat, both written by Edgar Allan Poe. Mysterious, otherworldly events seem to happen to both main characters of the narratives, but upon further analysis, these are the regretful fabrications of their respective unstable minds, illustrating to readers that both men are deeply shaken by their appalling decisions. Through devices such as the fictitious beating of the heart in The Tell-Tale Heart and the main character’s demise in The Black Cat, Poe crafts a feeling of…

characters have deranged psyches. In The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell Tale Heart, Poe has characters who are proven to be crazy. In the black cat the guy marries a woman that likes pets. They get a black cat. The cat was his favorite pet. He later began to drink and get angry. He treated his wife and pets badly. One night he comes home and grabs the cat and the cat bites his hand. He gets mad and cuts the cats eye out. Later he hangs the cat from a tree and kills it. On…

18th and 19th century, Romantic Literature was more gothic They were meant to be more gloomy and suspenseful. They can also be haunting and depressing. In these three stories, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “The Devil and Tom Walker”, and “The Black Cat” all have the Romantic Characteristic of Moral Corruption. One of the characters or more can be morally corrupt depending on how. To first start off with, Ichabod Crane has a bit of moral corruption, Around the beginning of “The Legend of…

Edgar Allan Poe constructed two short stories named “The Tale-Tell Heart” and “The Black Cat”. Both of these stories are narrated by very similar men with very interesting lives. Poe was a very smart man and achieved a complete new way of viewing a story by writing these stories in first person to show the emotional instability of the narrators, the way a mad man defends his sanity, and a better understanding of what is actually going on inside their minds. Both of these stories being told in…

the story, the narrator tortures and ultimately hangs his favorite cat, Pluto. He says he “hung it because I knew it had loved me and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; hung it because I knew that in doing so I was committing a sin…” (Poe 532). This was definitely an irrational decision. When he finds a new cat for him and his wife, the narrator kills his wife with an ax to the head for attempting to protect the cat from his harm. Also, a very irrational decision on the…