The male narrator at one time he was nice but now he has a drinking problem. ... The narrator started to go insane from drinking. ... The drinking is the worst part of the book because it causes the narrator to kill an animal. ... Drinking may seem fun at the time, until you get addicted. ... Drinking may seem very interesting but in all actuality it is very bad for you. ...
Therefore, the Temperance Movement was founded to press the cause of the cultural trends favoring habitual drinking. ... Both of these stories expose the effects of binge drinking and ultimately how it can lead you to a life unwanted. ... This relates to people because he is a successful, hard worker; then the narrative shifts into a story involving drinking. ... Perhaps this causes the narrator to become an outcast, but he finds happiness with animals, "these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them " (Poe). ... He takes it home with him but when it f...
(DiYanni 131) He was especially fond of animals and nothing made him happier than feeding and cuddling with them. ... After few years, the narrator develops a drinking problem, he becomes irritable and violent not only to people, but also to his pets. Late one night after drinking excessively at the bar, he arrives home and grabs Pluto, which startles the cat causing it to react by biting the man's hand. ...
Throughout this narrative, the narrator's character changes in attribute due to his vulnerability to alcohol which drives his perverseness, his behavior towards his animals, and his masked guilt from murdering his wife. ... His absurdity eventually leads him to slay his animals along with his beloved black cat, and ultimately his wife. This once decent, animal-loving man takes to drink and suffers a change for the worse, abusing everything in his path viciously, including the plethora of animals his wife and he own. ... Soon after the spirit of perversity takes complete control over hi...
The "Black Cat" is about a psychotic animal lover who acquires and befriends a stray black cat until a moment of madness occurs where he cuts out its eye and hangs it. Later, the man finds another cat like the one he killed and decides to keep it until once again becoming increasingly loathful of the animal. ... A piece of characterisation which Poe uses to tackle the theme of death is when the insane narrator in "The Black Cat" pounces for the animal, after a few drinks, clutching a pen-knife and tears one of its eyes out with the weapon. ...
Initially the man lived a varied and domesticated life, in a two story home, filled with the love of his wife, his animals and a "sagacious" cat, Pluto. This initial setting seems one replete with joy, a loving wife and a menagerie of fine animals; a broad world surrounds this limited cast of characters. ... Upon a visiting a favorite place of drink, the narrator discovers another black cat, with an uncanny resemblance to the former, missing eye and all. ...
Edgar Allen Poe is best known for the dark and gothic nature of his writings. Poe's stories of death and decay can be seen in much of his work including "The Black Cat, " and "The Fall of the House of Usher. " In both of these stories, the main characters and settings are similar in the way that the...
"I aimed a blow at the animal which, of course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. ... As for the motivation of the murder in "The Black Cat", the un-named narrator was an alcoholic and overtime he would come home after a night of drinking, he would become very abusive towards his wife and pet cats which eventually led him to just becoming an angry person who was haunted by his inner demons and led to the murders he committed. ...
No one knows for sure if Poe had been beaten, robbed, forced to drink huge amounts of liquor, or if he himself committed suicide. ... In Poe's "The Black Cat" the theme seems to be that human unreasoning and impulsive destructive behavior towards animals and fellow humans results in incarceration and personal mental breakdown. ...
