Sociopathy In On Cats By Edgar American

Many have heard of the morbid and twisted tales of Edgar Allan Poe. However, none have heard of the visual and lucid stories of the greatest French story writer, Guy de Maupassant. Born in August 5, 1850, Henry-Rene-Albert Guy de Maupassant, or Guy de Maupassant, was a child born into an unsuccessful marriage that ended when Maupassant was 11 years old. He eventually joined in the Franco-German War which, by result, led to providing him with inspiration for some of his stories later on in his profession. After said war, he was taken under the tutelage of novelist, Gustave Flaubert. After his death, he was remembered mainly for his short stories than anything else.

One of Maupassant's works, "On Cats", was a short story published in 1886. This story tells the tale of a man, whom is both fond and disgusted by cats, going down a trip on memory lane to recall a certain instance of a strange encounter with a cat. Along with that memory, a dream, a dream in which the man encounters a woman whom he does not understand,
Sociopathy is actually not a direct link to psychopathy since, in this scenerio, the rule of nature versus nurture applies. To understand this difference, one must see psychopathy being a born issue (or nature) and sociopathy being an environmental or situational issue (or nurture). One way to see this in the story was through a flashback of the narrator's childhood encounter with a dying cat. In said encounter, he seemed to hold life in little regard; a common trait in sociopaths. Another sociopathic characteristic shown was near the end. "In our stupid and prudish northern countries, with their hateful mawkishness of ideas, and silly notions of morality, a man would never receive a stranger in this fashion"(Maupassant, Page 191), this kind of mentality originates from APD (Anti-personality Disorder), a sociopathic diagnosis, and common trait in