The Black Cat
In the short story "The Black Cat" by Edgar Poe Allan, Poe interestingly catches my attention by developing the plot and character quickly yet cunningly twisted. A short summary in my point of view about the story would be a man whose habit and his way of thinking destroys himself, his wife and his pets and finally ends up on a death row. After reading further, there were many questions that were raised in my mind. The most prevalent of all the question was how much can be rationally explained? And are superstition real?
As for the story it starts out to be a flashback by narrator who is never identified, for what I consider, Poe wanted to make him seem similar to every other human being. The narrator had a peculiar character. He was very …show more content…
From what I understand this was no ordinary addiction. At one point he referred to it as " fiend intemperance"(1155), translating into demonic/wicked level of alcoholism. Due to the changes brought about in his disposition, by his new habit, his pets started to ignore him, like most other alcoholic I have heard about, he started ti abuse his wife, his marital life started to disintegrate. The fact that all pets ignored him including his beloved cat made him furious that he cut one of the cat's eye out from socket, which I believe made him seem as …show more content…
The strangest part to my surprise is that a wall which had survived the fire held an image of cat like creature similar to Pluto. Although unable to differentiated if this was real or his mind was playing tricks on him, leaves the narrator shocked for a while.
This very event brought my mind to additional notion held by ancient Egyptians. Egyptians considered cats as sacred and thought cat brought wealth and good luck to family. They also believed killing a cat was one of the lowest crimes one could commit and killer of the cat would be killed for sure. How true is that in this situation? The narrator is poor and barely escaped the fire.
Not to long after murder of Pluto narrator finds himself a second cat. Greatly similar to Pluto in almost every characteristic but a area with white fur around the chest . Narrator's wife also pointed out that the cat "it also had been deprived of one eye"(1158). Doesn't the popular superstition about cat having nine lives come into play? Seems as though it does to
As for the story it starts out to be a flashback by narrator who is never identified, for what I consider, Poe wanted to make him seem similar to every other human being. The narrator had a peculiar character. He was very …show more content…
From what I understand this was no ordinary addiction. At one point he referred to it as " fiend intemperance"(1155), translating into demonic/wicked level of alcoholism. Due to the changes brought about in his disposition, by his new habit, his pets started to ignore him, like most other alcoholic I have heard about, he started ti abuse his wife, his marital life started to disintegrate. The fact that all pets ignored him including his beloved cat made him furious that he cut one of the cat's eye out from socket, which I believe made him seem as …show more content…
The strangest part to my surprise is that a wall which had survived the fire held an image of cat like creature similar to Pluto. Although unable to differentiated if this was real or his mind was playing tricks on him, leaves the narrator shocked for a while.
This very event brought my mind to additional notion held by ancient Egyptians. Egyptians considered cats as sacred and thought cat brought wealth and good luck to family. They also believed killing a cat was one of the lowest crimes one could commit and killer of the cat would be killed for sure. How true is that in this situation? The narrator is poor and barely escaped the fire.
Not to long after murder of Pluto narrator finds himself a second cat. Greatly similar to Pluto in almost every characteristic but a area with white fur around the chest . Narrator's wife also pointed out that the cat "it also had been deprived of one eye"(1158). Doesn't the popular superstition about cat having nine lives come into play? Seems as though it does to