The Black Cat Patriarchal Analysis
Failed Patriarchal Responsibilities in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat”
According to the documentary The Mystery of Edgar Allen Poe When Poe found a job it didn’t last him long until he would be looking for another job. Poe didn’t have the money to pay the medical bills for Virginia when she was sick. Poe never grew up with biological father since his father abandon his family at a young age. Also Poe’s foster father never wanted to deal with Poe since they adopted him. All through Poe’s life he never had any kids of his own even after being together with three different women. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” (1843) thematically posits domestic violence as the result of an early 19th century husband’s failure to fulfill two patriarchal responsibilities: to biologically reproduce and to satisfy the family’s material needs. One patriarchal responsibility that Poe thematically posits as resulting in domestic violence when unfulfilled is to biologically reproduce. A husband in the 19th century patriarchal family, according to Reva Siegal, had the husband’s authority, as “master of the household,” to “command his wife’s obedience” and “subject her to corporal punishment” (2123). However, with that authority came a number of responsibilities, such as biologically reproducing, which meant that the husband was to reproduce or adopt a child to …show more content…
Which thematically posits the domestic violence of a 19th century husband in “The Black Cat” (1843) by Edgar Allen Poe. After reading this story, Poe’s 1843 audience might have been prompted to address the social issue of domestic violence by advocating for women started the temperance movement to ban alcohol sales to stop their husbands from spending money on alcohol. With the temperance movement wives begin wanting divorce which told the husband he failed his responsibilities as a husband in the
According to the documentary The Mystery of Edgar Allen Poe When Poe found a job it didn’t last him long until he would be looking for another job. Poe didn’t have the money to pay the medical bills for Virginia when she was sick. Poe never grew up with biological father since his father abandon his family at a young age. Also Poe’s foster father never wanted to deal with Poe since they adopted him. All through Poe’s life he never had any kids of his own even after being together with three different women. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” (1843) thematically posits domestic violence as the result of an early 19th century husband’s failure to fulfill two patriarchal responsibilities: to biologically reproduce and to satisfy the family’s material needs. One patriarchal responsibility that Poe thematically posits as resulting in domestic violence when unfulfilled is to biologically reproduce. A husband in the 19th century patriarchal family, according to Reva Siegal, had the husband’s authority, as “master of the household,” to “command his wife’s obedience” and “subject her to corporal punishment” (2123). However, with that authority came a number of responsibilities, such as biologically reproducing, which meant that the husband was to reproduce or adopt a child to …show more content…
Which thematically posits the domestic violence of a 19th century husband in “The Black Cat” (1843) by Edgar Allen Poe. After reading this story, Poe’s 1843 audience might have been prompted to address the social issue of domestic violence by advocating for women started the temperance movement to ban alcohol sales to stop their husbands from spending money on alcohol. With the temperance movement wives begin wanting divorce which told the husband he failed his responsibilities as a husband in the