Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” depicts a male narrator who begins to be malicious due to his ongoing consumption of alcohol which in turn, results in his ultimate demise. In summarization, the narrator commits multiple heinous crimes under the influence of alcohol and that can eventually portray his lost of sanity. Furthermore, by studying Sigmund Freud’s Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis along with Poe’s short story, we can perceive the short story on a psychoanalytical level. Therefore
Analysis of The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat is a story which has been with me since early childhood. While most parents were reading their children tales of princesses and heroes, my English major mother was reading me A Tale Tell Heart and the Martian Chronicles. Two things have always stood out to me in this story. The first being the protagonist and his struggle with alcohol dependency, the second, why a black cat? So I ask the question, what did lead to our protagonist’s alcoholism
The Black Cat Directed by Brianna Povaleri Scene One: Welcoming Pluto: The man enters the room his clothes is long and baggy his shirt is a yellow mustard color with hole in the front pocket on the left side of his heart, dirt is covering his shirt his pants are a size too big. His bottom barely keeps them up, there’s dirt covering them, holes everywhere where you see his dirt covered skin. His left shoes has a hole on the tippy toe where you can see his bare feet and the right is barely
alcohol-drenched debauchery in ‘The Black Cat.” In classic Poe style, the story is written in a first-person perspective giving us deep insight into the crimes and atrocities that are committed. Hidden throughout this yarn are examples of self-denial and revenge. The events, as told by the narrator, are lessons of life that should be learned at a young age. First off, the narrator refuses to take action for his crimes and his behavior. He believes that the cat drove him to murder his wife (pg. 143
never mistreat them. He was peculiarly fond of his black cat Pluto. Though his wife thought that all black cats were secretly witches. This fondness of animals started grew with him as he started to become a man. The narrator had a tenderhearted with his animals, expressly Pluto. However, he's kind heartedness takes away for his manly hood. "I not only neglected, but ill-used them". The narrator kill all his animals and his wife except the second cat with the white bully. The impression is that this
with thoughts, his eyes were scanning the area for an ideal place, and his hands were trembling with fear of being discovered. In the corner of his eye, a location where no one would find it, is where the corpse shall be hidden. A story called “The Black Cat,” shows how perverseness can change a person and lead them to make miserable decisions causing them to regret it later on. Edgar Allan Poe, the author, shows an example of how perverseness progresses through a human by changing both the person’s
Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat,” shows how alcohol and guilt can deteriorate a persons mental stability, and mutate their very nature and character in a way that they become unrecognizable to even themselves and makes them do things they normally would not do. The Narrator, is an unnamed character in the story “The Black Cat” who has major issues. He abuses his wife and pets, he is a murderer and openly admits that he is insane. The Narrator tells us right up front that he is in
6. The main character eventually mistreats the cat because of his alcoholic addiction and Pluto attacking him. On page 2, it reads, “One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth.” Initially, Pluto began to realize the main character’s alcohol consumption was changing him as a person so he was trying to keep his distance
Because of the narrator’s alcoholic obsession in “The Black Cat,” this leads to his despicable actions. The story begins with the main character being a compassionate and sympathetic person who cared for his wife and his animals. However, as he experienced the “instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance,” the narrator grew “more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.” He even starts “maltreating the rabbits, monkeys, or even the dog.” It appears the more he became obsessed
“The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are both written by a famous American writer named Edgar Allan Poe. In these stories, he writes as a nameless narrator that at first seems calm, but really, has an issue with something to the point where he has to kill it. In both of these stories, he does ending up killing someone or something, which would make it seem like it's the same story, but they have some similarities but a lot of differences which I will explain in the following paragraphs. In