Tuesday 2 April 2019

The Black Cat "- By Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat "- By Edgar Allan Poe



"The Black Cat" is a famous short story from horror - Master Edgar Allan Poe It was first printed on August 19, 1843, in the Philadelphia edition of a newspaper called the United States Saturday post.






Theme:


Performing evil deeds will lead to vengeance

Heavy use of alcohol may bring the worst in a human being


The other theme of the story is that the story is no matter how hard you try it


Conflict:


The story is an internal conflict, Man vs. Self And the conflict begins to unfold when the man has changed his way to becoming the heavier, many years after Pluto became his pet.


Overall story:


The beginning of the story begins with the narrator in a jail cell the day before he is about to hang out. He says that wants to get the reader know what happened in the situation. The narrator says that he has been the first and he has got old. Marries a woman that shares his likeness for pets and they share a plethora of pets. Pluto The narrator starts drinking and his personality traits. One night coming home drunk, he feels like the cat is ignoring him so he grabs it. The cat defends itself by biting his hand and only angered the narrator who took a pen knife and removed one of the cats eyes. A few days later, he is overcome by a perverse impulse and guilt and decides to hang out in the garden. the night of the hanging, his room caught on fire and he loses everything The next day he returns and sees a cat with a rope around his neck.


The figure on the wall disturbed the man One night on his way home from the bar, he finds a black cat that looks like Pluto except he has a white patch on his chest. He brings his wife who is happy The spot on the cats chest began to shift in the man's mind The narrator begins to despise The cat does not leave his or her head and she often tries to lay on the narrators. So he is not getting any sleep and his abuse towards his wife escalates. One day, the narrator and his wife go down in the cellar and the cat tries to travel the narrator. Out of anger, he tries to strike the cat with an ax that he is holding. The wife defends the cat Out of impulse, he bury the ax into the wife's head.


After much deliberation, the narrator decides to keep the cellar in the wall. The narrator is able to sleep Cops come around the house The narrator has been looking for the cat and the fourth day, the cops come back around and even went down in the cellar. Whenever he believes that he has gotten away with murder; He hits the wall where his wife is buried with his cane and a noise from the wall emerges. It sounds like a child screeching The cops tear down the wall and find the woman's body with the cat on her head. The narrator buried the cat in there with his crime. This is why he is in jail and is sentenced to death.

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