Another critic says, " ˜The Black Cat' is perfect eerie and dark. ... One points out, "In ˜The Black Cat' drink turns a once loving and compassionate man into a monster. ... The cat was large and black. ... In "The Black Cat " it begins with the narrator in jail awaiting his execution, which will occur on the following day, for the brutal murder of his wife. ... It is frightening because we witness in "The Fall of the House of Usher " and "The Black Cat " how quickly one can become consumed with madness....

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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

In "The Black Cat," Poe shows how our vices can overtake our lives and force us to do unthinkable things. ... The next day, the cat is gone and there is a new cat that resembles the cat that he had just killed with a rope around its neck. He takes the cat in and his drinking leads him to start to resent that cat as well. One day, the man stumbles over the cat and he loses it. ... The police hear a muffled sound from behind the wall and tear it down to discover the black cat sitting on the top of the wife's body. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To introduce a character, they displayed the character's name on a black background, and played the same scene over again. ... The movie did include some elements of the gothic genre, such as a haunted house, mass murders, darkness, black cats, women in distress, and undead beings. Also, there was a repeating occurrence of a black cat and a young boy that appeared before each killing in the haunted house. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The narrator of the story, "The Black Cat," would not gouge out the cat's eye and then hang it from a tree as well as he would not kill his wife if he were sane. ... For instance, in the short story, "The Black Cat," addiction to alcohol is portrayed in the relation with insanity of the narrator: "Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character - through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance - had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. [] But my disease grew upon me - ...

• Word Count: 1406
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate