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	The second black cat is symbolic of the narrator’s guilt. The night after the narrator’s house caught on fire, he went to a bar where he saw black cat two. Black cat two resembled black cat one in every aspect except one. The finding of black cat two is symbolic of the night in which the narrator had came home from a bar toxicated. When the narrator began to leave the bar, black cat two began to follow him and this is symbolic of the guilt that follows the narrator. The narrator noticed that black cat two resembled

In Killing Us Softly, Kilbourne gives the example of the common advertising image of a black women in a jungle setting, wearing a leopard skin. In most media, white women are considered the “standard model” of what is desirable, both from the perspective of what a women should look like, and

I believe that the cat was the only thing that showed her love and attention. Her only son, had a family of his own, her grandchildren were older now, and she felt like she was not important to them anymore, and the children?s mother was involved with the baby. By bringing the cat, she felt like she would not be lonely. The reader can also tell that the woman is extremely prejudice. She refers to the black child as a ?cute little pickaninny? and a nigger.

“Beneath My House” by Louise Erdrich, is a literary essay with an expressive approach. Erdrich narrates the day she rescues a kitten from beneath her house, despite the fact that she does not even like cats. Her maternal instincts take over when she hears the kitten cry, which causes her to do whatever it takes to rescue the kitten. Then, the author analyzes the event and she expresses her emotional response. Through the use of description and narration, Erdrich allows for the audience to imagine the rescue of the kitten “beneath her house.” The overall theme is the act of being born.

In Native Son by Richard Wright, The Dalton’s, a wealthy white family, own a white cat that appears in the story more than once. The few times that the cat encounters Bigger Thomas, it always appears to be watching him. After killing Mary, the cat watches Bigger again and Wright describes it as “Two green burning pools—pools of accusation and guilt—stared at him from a white blur that sat perched upon the edge of the trunk” (91). In this way, the cat acts as a symbol of the suspicion of Bigger. Because the cat is white, it can also expand to the idea that the cat not only represents suspicion but the idea that the idea that the white society is watching Bigger. Also, because the cat witnessed Bigger burning Mary’s body, it foreshadowed his

In “The Black Cat,” the man was married to a patient and caring woman. They acquired another cat that, according to the man, looked remarkably like Pluto (709). One day, the cat almost tripped the man while they were walking down a flight of stairs. This “exasperated” the man “to madness” (Poe 709). He lifted an axe and “aimed a blow at the animal,” (Poe 709).

Over the course of this class, we learned that the characteristics that define a person are constructed by society. However, the people that do not abide by these standards are discriminated and oppressed. In America, these certain people are oblivious to their privilege and treat people whom are different from them poorly. In the critically acclaimed play, “The Beast of Times”, Adelina Anthony uses animals to reflect the beast like characters in society to represent how patriarchy, homophobia, nativism, and classism are effecting communities. Anthony uses these topics that make people of privilege uncomfortable by utilizing comic reliefs to show significance of the issue and how to change it.

The greatest metaphor throughout this tale is the black cat. While the narrator’s wife has been known to refer to the dark-haired feline as a “witch in disguise”, the metaphor for Poe is that the cat is not only a superstitious monster but it is also a metaphor for being the narrator’s own personal demon (Poe 706). The recurring events with the black cats in the story portray that they are metaphors for the narrator’s own problems that haunt him. As the series of events continue throughout the story, the cat becomes a visual element in the scene for the narrator’s recurring violence and finally brings him to the point of his insanity.

For Pluto, however, I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him”. He abused all the other animals and even his wife but he never hurt Pluto. The first black cat is symbolic of the narrator’s evil heart. It shows favouritism and obsession with black cats from the start this story, later after he had murdered Pluto, he still went out and realised when he saw the second cat that it is what he was looking for. “What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast, was the discovery, on the morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes.”. The second black cat is symbolic of the narrator’s guilt. This fact about the cat made him hate more simply because he felt guilty of what he had done to Pluto. His guilt and religious torment gives us an insight to his insanity.

Any art medium can be utilized to tell a story or evoke emotion in a viewer. Artistry is unique in that it is purely visual and can be left to interpretation if the artist chooses to stay ambiguous in the message they are trying to convey. As an artist, I am always trying to analyze the meanings behind famous works of art, whether those meanings happen to be incidental or purposeful. So, when contemporary artist, Enrique Chagoya expressed his adoration for the social commentary expressed in Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos sketches, I was intrigued.

The meaning of the title, ¨The Black Cat.¨ “The Black Cat mimics the role of the author by relating his story in a way that will produce a calculated response from the audience.”(Richard 2). This is important because before reading the

Having moved into a new house, the narrator happens across a black cat, which then follows him home. Nerves rattled, the narrator does his best to avoid the cat. When that fails he tries to kill it, accidentally killing his wife in the process. After sealing his wife's body into the basement wall, he is interviewed by the police. Not unlike in “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator of “The Black Cat” cracks under the pressure of his guilt and gives himself up. Symbolism and suspense make “The Black Cat” worth reading.

The narrator finds this cat to be out of place, and she uses the sight of this cat to take her text in a different direction. Losing her train of thought is an exercise in allowing the reader to experience what it might feel like to be a woman writer. Although the narrator goes on to make a valuable point about the atmosphere at her luncheon, she has lost her original point. Women, who so often lack a room of their own and the time to write, cannot compete against the men who are not forced to struggle for such basic necessities.

“The Black Cat” is one of Poe’s most memorable stories. The story first published in 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post, is a study of the psychology of guilt, paired with other works by Poe. The start of the narrative should intrigue readers, by the imagery that is recognized by writers. John Cleman wrote the article “Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense” analyzing the work written by Poe and his usage of themes and symbols. At the beginning of this article, Cleman stated this: “Near the beginning of the tale, the narrator says he would be “mad indeed” if he should expect a reader to believe the story, implying that he has already been accused of madness” (630). Poe is creating a sense of confusion for the readers and making them think more about the story before reading. The story is centered around a black cat and the idea of deterioration of a man. From his prison cell, the narrator is writing the story about his life, which is falling apart; He has a love for animals, and for his wife that he married young. One of the things that he takes on as a hobby, is drinking, and when he starts to drink, his personality shifts, as he starts abusing his wife and pets. The narrative is full of gruesome scenes in which he hurts his pets, including murdering them. Later, he continues the abuse and kills his wife, also. Eventually, the cops show up, and take down the wall. “Then quickly they began to pick at the stones, and in a short time they saw

The story of “The Black Cat” starts off with a man that seems like an alcoholic, but has the tendencies of a sociopath. The way he acts throughout the story makes him seem like a sociopath, based on the fact that he abuses his wife and cat out of anger, even though he claims to love his wife. Though it is difficult for sociopaths to love and care for others, it isn’t impossible. The man lacks organization, and like common in sociopaths, tend to lean on substances that eventually lead to substance abuse, like alcohol. He talks about his past and his hardships. He also talks of his love for whom he married, and the cat they got together afterwards. The wife was becoming fond of this cat and the cat showed kindness towards his owner, the man. He rapidly becomes more out of control to the point that he starts to abuse his wife, quoted, “I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.” The man became angry that the cat was nice to him and how his wife loved that cat. He later on in the story admits his anger is getting out of control; eventually, he starts to take his anger off on his wife. One day he becomes so fed up with the cat’s kindness that he uses a pen-knife to remove the cat’s eye causing the cat to begin to ignore him, in a sense of distrust and fear. This enraged the owner even more towards the creature that he hung it in a tree. It is not clear