Compare And Contrast King Poe Vs King

Poe develops suspense in his narrative “The Black Cat” by using the following events: cutting the cat’s eye out, killing his wife, and hiding his wife body. After a night of drinking, Poe states the narrator becomes furious because he thinks Pluto is avoiding him. The narrator states “I took from my waist coat pocket a pen knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket” (Poe 2) The reader now realize the narrator is insane. He or she is shocked because he or she now understands that the narrator is unpredictable.

In Stephen King’s “The Man in The Black Suit”, a variety of themes are introduced to the reader, the most prominent of these being suspense. Throughout the short story, King does an excellent job of using elements of setting and character to create suspense and uneasiness. Just a few of the elements used to accomplish this include the hyperbolic depiction of the devil, foreshadowing of the main character, Gary, and his misadventure, and references to his brother’s death and his possible allergy inherited from his mother.

“The Black Cat” is an old short story written by Edgar Allan Poe an American Writer. It is a horror fiction story which demonstrate the fascinating changes that the human mind has during the abuse of alcohol. The protagonist is physiological corrupter by the abuse of alcohol and his mind play games with itself. He changes his personality as the story progresses and the way that he treats others around him. Everyone is affected by his behavior even his lovely cat. The cat becomes the object of his hate and in some way it is the first thing that he blames about his irrational acts. In the short story “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe, uses a varied forms of Irony, dramatic Irony, verbal Irony, and situation irony to produce a transformation of love threw hate along of the story.

The Narrator in “The Black Cat” is explained as a man who fell into alcoholism and let deception take control over his mindset (Poe 79). His change of perspective over things causes him to believe his beloved first black cat (Pluto) is evil and demonic when the cat bites him one day (Poe 80). During the illusion from the excessive alcohol, he hangs Pluto (Poe 80). From guilt further on from killing his first cat, the narrator adopts another black cat. A while later, he comes to believe that the new cat has the same characteristics that Pluto had (Poe 82). In an act of fit from the new Black cat almost tripping him on the cellar stairs, the narrator starts to try to kill him with an axe (Poe 84). His wife comes in and tries to stop him, but instead that causes him to kill her. The narrator hides his wife’s body in a cellar wall, meanwhile the cat vanished (Poe 84). Four days later, the police came to do a thorough search. The narrator acted strangely calm and innocent, as if he had done nothing. They discovered her corpse with the cat standing on her head howling in the cellar wall though, and took the narrator into custody. (Poe 85-86).

Edgar Allan Poe, the acclaimed poet, has created a multitude of short stories, one being “The Black Cat”.The short story depicts an alcoholic on his slow descent into insanity; this relates heavily to the author’s own life, being an extreme alcoholic himself. The narrator of “The Black Cat” is not only driven mad by alcohol, but also by a black cat, as you might guess from the title of the story. At the beginning of “The Black Cat”, you can tell the narrator’s alcohol addiction is taking its toll when he starts abusing his wife and pets. His actions slowly led up to him killing his cat, Pluto, and then killing his own wife because tried to defend their second cat from him. His meticulous writing style, diction, syntax, and imagery in his short stories are used to portray his emotions.

In the short story “The Black Cat” Edgar Allan Poe writes how the addiction of alcohol can severely affect one self’s psychological health and destroy one’s life. Poe begins the story in America, where a former animal lover turns into a psychopath since he is addicted to alcohol drinking. The first complication in the story is when the narrator starts drinking a lot and changes in character. The narrator’s drinking caused the narrator start abuse his pet animals and become violent as well as aggressive. In the second complication, the narrator attacked his black cat, Pluto, and gouged out its eye, and later hung the cat on a tree with a noose. In the climaxes of the story, the narrator’s house burned down, and he lost all of his belongings;

Poe uses a theme of the supernatural to contrast against the narrator’s claim to logically explain the events that have led up to his imprisonment. The apparition of the first cat upon the burned wall, the appearance of the gallows like pattern upon the chest of the second cat, and the discovery of the second cat behind the cellar wall set up a convincing case that the supernatural plays an important part in this grotesque short story. The narrator contrasts logic with words like wonder, apparition, and amazement to make the reader aware of the unexplained nature of the tale and create vibrant detail. Quinn points out that “Poe knew that to be effective the supernatural must appeal to the most powerful impulse in human nature, self-preservation, not only of physical life but also of spiritual life. The alternative is madness” (Quinn, 302). Since the narrator cannot claim his past temperament and preserve the life that he once shared with his wife and pets, it is this madness that leads the narrator down his road to destruction. Poe also hints at destiny and fate in “The Black Cat”, which adds another slant toward the

Along with the majority of his tales, Poe’s “The Black Cat” is a grim plot that includes the downfall of its narrator in order to portray a human nature contrary to the archetypal transcendentalist version. The undoing of the chronicler is found in the unraveling of his mental state, which leads him to commit draconian actions on his cat, including cutting its eye out and then hanging it. Poe further emphasizes the narrator’s

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” the unnamed narrator recounts the way his life has fallen apart due to a series of terrifying incidents he has with his pet cat, Pluto. As the story develops, his actions grow more grotesque and immoral as he tries to rid himself of the animal. In one of these instances, a fire forces the narrator to move from his well-tended house to a smaller, run-down building, which represents the deterioration of his state of mind. In this way, Edgar Allan Poe uses elements of setting to suggest that when people disregard their conscience, the resulting moral and mental decay will end in their retribution.

Edgar Allen Poe continues to astonish us with a fine tale of twisted horror and alcohol-drenched debauchery in ‘The Black Cat.” In classic Poe style, the story is written in a first-person perspective giving us deep insight into the crimes and atrocities that are committed. Hidden throughout this yarn are examples of self-denial and revenge. The events, as told by the narrator, are lessons of life that should be learned at a young age. First off, the narrator refuses to take action for his crimes and his behavior.

There is a contrast between the narrator’s former self and what he has

In the short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe the reader is led onto a journey in which they are told the gruesome actions of a disturbed narrator. This subjective narrators' actions are spurred by a heavy alcohol addiction and deteriorating mental state. The narrator tells the reader of his deeds,which ultimately led to his demise, starting with the killing of Pluto. Pluto was the household cat of the narrator and his wife. He was very much cared and adored for but one night after returning home “much intoxicated” the narrator carved one of the poor beasts eyes after he upset him. After that event a disagreeable mood leeches onto the narrator and he decides to hang the pet using a noose and attaches it onto the limb of a tree . A

Lairs and untrustworthy people make it easy an easy way to develop a plot and Edgar Allen Poe uses that to his advantage in both of his texts. The narrator in The Black Cat is very hard to trust especially when he changes his opinions and outlooks in almost every paragraph. One example of this is in the first paragraph, the narrator flips from saying that the narrative is wild and mad at the beginning, to at the end saying its just a couple of ordinary events " of very natural causes and effects". He also says that a spot on his cats chest turned from a spot to the gallows. The fact that he cant make up his mind on the type of story and the fact that he believes that a spot on his cats chest went from just a blob to the gallows, makes it very

The struggle between good and evil ends badly for the narrator. Even though it is apparent that the narrator likes animals and seems like a good person toward the beginning, evil prevails. He ends up killing his cat and wife and also gets himself sentenced to death. He never finds a way to let the good he has inside of him shine out. A good example of this is when he decides to hang Pluto. He does it because he knows stabbing his eye out is evil, and thinks he will be punished if he goes ahead and kills him. Even though he knows what he did at first is wrong, the good in him is suppressed and he manages to make the situation even worse. Violence and death are also prevalent from the beginning to end of this short story; “I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it; but gradually—very gradually—I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence” (Poe 721). Here, even when the narrator tries to be good, and fight his urge to do wrong, he eventually becomes violent again. Death is shown three times, from Pluto getting hanged, to the wife getting hit in the head with an axe, to the narrator himself being sentenced to death. It is clear that with all of this violence and death, evil prevails over good. The last theme which shows up throughout “The Black Cat” is failing to learn from mistakes. The narrator repeatedly makes the same mistakes. He keeps letting his anger get the best of him and never finds a way to control it. Even after getting warning such as a house burning down after he kills Pluto, he still fails to change his bad behavior. It is obvious that the narrator never learns from his mistakes in his

The title of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” leads the reader to believe the short story is about one black cat; however, almost in the middle of the story, a second cat emerges. The narrator, who is scheduled to die the next day for killing his wife, hints the second cat is one of the first cat’s nine lives. Since the genre is horror the reader can expect a twist to occur. Maybe the narrator has gone mad or maybe there are traits of the cats that bring him to this thought. For instance, both cats are very similar in their desire to be around the narrator and both are missing an eye, but each cat has a major difference in the color of their fur, and all these traits lead the narrator down the slippery path of mental destruction.