Some of the most striking similarities can be found between "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", two short stories that divulge the inner workings of a perverse mind. ... "The Black Cat" is Poe's second psychological study of domestic violence and guilt (the first being "The Tell-Tale Heart"); however, this story does not deal with premeditated murder. ... Suffering from intemperance of alcohol and the same obsessive disorder, the man from "The Black Cat" was otherwise good-natured. Denying his insanity, the narrator from "Heart" is very similar to the man in "The Black Cat", w...

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In 1843 he published, "The Black Cat- and "The Tell Tale Heart."" ... In "The Black Cat- the narrator begins his story of demise, by describing a relationship with a cat that he claims to love. ... He eventually kills the cat and his beloved wife. ... The same sense brazen achievement can be seen in "The Black Cat- as the narrator exclaims, "I looked around the room triumphantly, and said to myself "Here at least , then, my labor has not been in vain.""-(209). ... The narrator in "the Black Cat- is seen as an alcoholic man who slowly loses his grip on reality as well. ...

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In "The Black Cat" the narrator is obsessed with pets; he has one special pet, which is a beautiful black cat. ... "The Black Cat" is a psychological study of domestic violence and guilt, however this story does not deal with calculated murder. ... (p.11) "The Black Cat" is a very powerful story, full of horror and revulsion, which will exhilarate and repulse the dedicated reader. ... Superstition has it that Satan and witches assume the form of black cats. ... The narrator of "The Black Cat" first becomes annoyed when Pluto "inflicted a slight wound upon [the narrator's] hand with h...

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In "The Black Cat " narrator is describing: "Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. ... Poe has introduced only two characters in the tales of terror such as in "The Tell-Tale Heart " and "The Black Cat " there is only two characters, one is the protagonists and another one is the victim and also in both stories narrator has no name. ... In "The Tell-Tale Heart,"" "The Cask of Amontillados,"" and "The Black Cat," the " narrators use their destructive urge to murder people. ... The unnamed narrators of the "The Tell-Tale Heart"" and "The Black Cat"" have almost the same categories...

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I think that this quote from "The Black Cat" summarizes all of this perfectly, Who has not, a hundred times found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? ... Some of his work, like "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" deal with him actually killing something or someone because of a trait that one usually wouldn't notice. In "The Black Cat" he and his wife have a pet cat which becomes so close to him that he soon feels disgusted by it. ... But the cat is really beginning to irritate him. ... Although what ...

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The Dostoevsky book that is being referred to in this essay is Crime and Punishment, and the Poe stories that are being assessed are The Tell-Tale Heart, Black Cat, and The Cask of Amontillado. ... The narrator is often times mentally unstable, like the narrator from Black Cat. While he was under the influence of alcohol, he cut an eye from its socket in his cat after the cat, which was frightened, bit him. ... Then he was going to kill his cat's doppelganger simply because it almost made him trip down the stairs. ... The only thing that bothered was the fact that he could not find his ol...

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In "The Black Cat" the father/husband, represented John Allen. He was overpowering and unjustly cruel to the cats, which indirectly represented a young and defenseless Poe. Eventually, this character killed their cat and his wife. ... While in most of his stories death was dragged out or overly considered, some of his stories were written only about death or murder, "The Tell Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Premature Burial". ...

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